00:00What is the role of the first-critical materials?
00:04The first-critical materials are largely dominated by a single country in the world, China,
00:09which has invested about a third of its 55 billion global investments
00:15not only in the research of where these first-critical materials are,
00:23but also in the process industry itself,
00:26which makes a substantial difference in global competition.
00:31So, on the one hand, Chinese dominance,
00:34on the other hand, the industry of Made in Italy,
00:37in the most advanced, most sophisticated industries,
00:40which are those of mechatronics, robotics, electronics, aerospace, defense,
00:46well, in these areas, without the first-critical materials,
00:50we will not be able to be competitive,
00:52indeed, we will not be able to be, period.
00:55We will not be able to realize the advanced technological solutions
01:01typical of Made in Italy in these competitive areas.
01:05And then one wonders, but what could we do?
01:08Well, we could do a lot of things.
01:10First of all, accelerate the authoritative procedures
01:14for the development of recycling and reuse processing plants.
01:21Today it takes up to seven years to get approvals,
01:24which is not acceptable.
01:27Not only that, but if we take the summary of a piece of this great world,
01:31of the first-critical materials,
01:33the one related to the so-called RAE,
01:36that is, the rejection of electronic and electrical devices,
01:41what do we discover?
01:43We discover that, compared to the European target of 65%,
01:47we are at 30%.
01:49And what else do we discover?
01:50We discover that volumes have almost doubled in the last decade,
01:54but our ability to recycle and reuse
01:58has dropped from 40% of the total to 30% of the total.
02:01And what else do we discover?
02:03That 84% of Italians have at least one RAE at home,
02:08but they don't know what to do with it, where to bring it, who takes care of it.
02:12So there is not even an acceptable informative and communicative flow.
02:17And what does this lead to?
02:20It exposes the country's system to a risk of a European infraction procedure.
02:25So we are faced with the absurd of the absurd.
02:28It is essential to have the first-critical materials
02:31to support our industrial production.
02:34We risk losing 35 billion added value
02:38only in these four sectors that I mentioned.
02:41And we undergo an infraction procedure
02:44and we don't create that minimum value that is easier to obtain.
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