00:00The Iren Group has inaugurated today in Terra Nuova, Bracciolini, in the province of Arezzo,
00:10the first European system for the treatment of electronic cards coming from RAE waste,
00:15launching a new and innovative circular economy model for the recovery of precious metals and raw materials.
00:22With a processing capacity of over 300 tons of electronic cards per year,
00:26the system will allow the recovery of metals such as gold, silver, palladium and copper,
00:31producing a quantity of CO2 three times less than the traditional processes of mineral extraction and incineration.
00:38Here we are in a system that represents the future of the reindustrialization of the country, starting from recovery.
00:45We are poor in raw materials, we always have less raw materials to buy because the world is content with them,
00:55and then we have devised a process that recovers what we have on the territory.
00:59So we will recover and recover from the cards, then from the computers, from the phones, from the mobile phones,
01:07from the electrical cards, gold, palladium, copper, silver, very precious materials,
01:13which in addition to being very precious are also very rare and are critical for our industry.
01:21The inauguration is presented by the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Picchetto Frattin.
01:26The absolute importance of Italy is that it is a country that has few raw materials.
01:33Our biggest mining project is the refugees, so it is about activating with modern technologies,
01:43naturally with systems like this, mechanisms to naturally find and have critical minerals, rare minerals,
01:57and therefore create a new management, a great mine.
02:02To characterize the technology of the plant, an innovative process of mechanical disassembly
02:07and specially designed hydrometallurgical treatment.
02:10Great satisfaction also expressed by the Mayor of Terranuova Bracciolini, Sergio Chienni.
02:15An innovation path opens up, which is also the result of determination and resilience,
02:21because our territory is demonstrating the ability to protect jobs.
02:26It happened recently with FIMER, which after months of turmoil has opened a new path on solid bases,
02:33and it happens here, because at the end of an experience a new one opens up,
02:39set on the circular economy, the first district of the Val d'Arno is born in this sense,
02:44with a system that sees the recovery of precious metals from rare cards.
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