University students propose circular solutions for Wege Prize

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The Wege Prize is an annual competition that ignites game-changing solutions for the future by inspiring university students from around the world to collaborate across institutional, disciplinary, and cultural boundaries to redesign the way economies work. Over nine months, the teams propose circular economic solutions to problems such as environmental degradation. Read about the three winners, including Canadian-based Neocycle, which used electronic waste to develop a sustainable synthetic biology approach for the circular extraction of rare earth elements.

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