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Is it waste or raw material? For almost a decade, the European Union has been trying to make the answer increasingly sound like raw material. In that time, it has adopted rules on how to better manage plastics, textiles and batteries. Now the new European Commission is preparing general rules for the so-called circular economy. EUROPEUM Institute analyst Filip Křenek commented for Czech Radio.
15. January 2025
Most of the metals are mined in various parts of the world, but essentially 95 per cent of them are now refined in China, which means that we are quite existentially dependent on the supply of precious metals from China, or the products that are made from them.
You can listen to the interview here (9:58).
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