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Don't panic: not all metals are in 'the danger zone'

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'Waste is what is left behind when our imagination fails,' argued Professor Christian Ekberg of Chalmers University of Technology when addressing last week's Circular Materials Conference in Gothenburg. He said the product value chain painted 'not a pretty picture', describing it as an intricate cobweb of standards and figures which was 'hard to penetrate'.

A total of 180 000 cars reach their end-of-life stage in Sweden every year, delegates learned. 'This compares to roughly 10 million end-of-life vehicles scrapped annually all throughout Europe,' said Maria Ljunggren Söderman of the IVL Research Institute. She reported that up to 3000 tonnes of scarce metals end up in Sweden's waste stream, with only one metal -namely platinum - being 'functionally recycled' owing to its high concentrations in catalytic converters.

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