Life Cycle Assessment. Optimising raw materials for renewables

Life Cycle Assessment is becoming a vital component in the design and planning stages of any new raw material acquisition project. Switching to renewables is an important step towards a more sustainable future but those technologies all still require vast resources to be dug out of our earth. Optimising the efficiency of those mining and processing operations can hugely reduce their impact.

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