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Greater circularity leads to lower criticality, and other links between criticality and the circular economy

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Acknowledgments

This perspective paper is the result of an International Round Table on Materials Criticality (IRTC) gathering on the topic of “Criticality and the Circular Economy” organized in Tokyo on October 9, 2018, back to back with the EcoBalance Conference, and an IRTC Round Table on “Secondary sourcing of CRMs” in Bejing on July 7, 2019, back to back with the ISIE2019 Conference. A summary of the Round Tables can be found at https://irtc.info. The IRTC project has received funding from the EIT

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