The critical materials recovery advisory task force includes 15 individuals to advise the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency on policy and program opportunities that would increase the recovery of critical materials — including aluminum, cobalt, copper, nickel, and silicon — from end-of-life products.
This fourth task force meeting is to evaluate the social, environmental, and economic costs and benefits of critical materials recycling and questions of scale.
Agenda
- 1 p.m. Welcome
- 1:05 p.m. Critical materials ecosystem: review of work so far
- 1:25 p.m. Evaluating social, environmental and economic costs and benefits of critical materials recycling
- 2:05 p.m. Questions of scale: consumer vs. industrial collection, and the practicalities of a recycling system
- 2:40 p.m. Public comment and open discussion
- 2:55 p.m. Wrap up and next steps