Biography:
Dr. Lúcia Helena Xavier has published relevant papers along the last ten years regarding electronic waste (e-waste) management, circular economy and urban mining. She joined the Centre for Mineral Technology (CETEM), a research institute from Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation in Brazil, in 2017 as Senior Researcher after contributing as consultant and researcher on reverse logistics and waste management for 12 years. She published the first books on e-waste management (2014) on urban mining (2021) in Brazil, with specific approaches on the potential of e-waste as an anthropogenic stock of secondary material.
Title : The urban mining challenge in recovering value from secondary material in anthropogenic stocks