Criticality policy brief

This final report of WP6 will discuss how to evaluate the potential exploitation of tailing sites with NEMO processes with respect to the contribution to securing critical raw materials in Europe and the benefits to society and the environment A clear decision tree for policy makers will be included The inventory will comprise the collected data and justification for these data for the different materials developed in SSUCHY the processes to produce and transform these materials the manufacturing of semiproducts The data will cover the relevant foreground data that cannot yet be found in existing databases The format of the data will be directly compatible with the ELCD European reference Life Cycle Database The data collection will be accompanied with an introductory report on the set up of the data collection and on the use of the data for LCA analyses on products made of SSuchy materials defining the goal and scope of the assessments including also the definition of the system boundaries of the reference flows and functional units allocation rules etc A second part of the report will give results of cases based on 3 semifinished products developed in SSUCHYThe report will describe the full LCA performed on the demonstrators developed in SSuchy Task 104 including scenarios for recycling the demonstrators and the estimated durability This report will make use of D101 for all necessary data and for the methodology