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An NSF Industry / University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC)

The Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling (CR3) is committed to being the premier cooperative research center focused on sustainable stewardship of the earth’s resources.

Our focus is on helping industry address a pivotal societal need – the need to create a sustainable future. At CR3 you will advance technologies that recover, recycle and reuse materials throughout the manufacturing process. These advancements will help your business reduce energy costs and increase profitability, while protecting our natural resources.

 

Summer Meeting, June 28-29, 2018, CSM, Golden, CO

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Not a member, but interested?  Please contact Carol Garofoli at garofoli@wpi.edu

 

Our Research in the News

  • Recycling Today showcases CR3 “Finer Points of E-scrap” Electronic scrap (or e-scrap, which can refer to a variety of electronic products that have met their end of life) is one of the fastest growing discarded material streams in the world. According to Solving the E-waste Problem (StEP), an international initiative created to develop solutions to address issues associated with Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), the world produced nearly 54 million tons of used electrical and electronic products in 2012. While e-scrap generation cannot be prevented, environmental consequences have driven global government policies to explore alternative solutions, such as the reuse and recycling of electronics that can lead to zero-waste processing. This is where the Center for Resource Recovery & Recycling is playing a pivotal role.  Read More.
  • Mechanical Engineering is talking about our lithium-ion battery research – “New Process Transforms Lithium Battery Recycling.”  Led by Yan Wang, associate professor of mechanical engineering at WPI, director of the Electrochemical Energy Laboratory, and affiliated faculty member in the Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling, the research team developed a process that can recover any cathode chemistry, with no battery sorting required. This is a vast improvement over the current approach, which involves sorting the batteries by cathode chemistry to avoid mixing incompatible formulations. Wang’s process saves considerable time and labor, making wide-scale recycling of lithium-ion batteries more feasible and profitable. Read More.
  • University of Tokyo Becomes CR3s Second International Partner – Read More.

What Members Say

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Uwe Habich
Chief Technology Officer
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“The benefits of membership are significant.  We network with existing and potentially new customers and suppliers in the field of metals recovery and recycling.  The partner universities provide valuable insight into current research activities, which gives us a broader, technical understanding.  We meet young, high potentials for future job opportunities and we can suggest research projects that benefit our organization.”