Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling (CR3)

The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the Center author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Center Overview

The Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling (CR³) focuses on the sustainable stewardship of resources. Its mission is to help industry address a pivotal societal need — the need to create a sustainable future. CR3 advances technologies that recover, recycle, and reuse materials throughout the manufacturing process, from initial product design through manufacture to end-of-life disposal. These advancements help businesses reduce energy costs and increase profitability, while protecting our natural resources.

CR³ does this by collaborating with industry to:

• Explore and develop basic recovery and recycling science, engineering, and education.
• Develop technologies to identify and separate valuable materials from waste streams.
• Build strategies and technologies to enable greater use of process effluents within materials process systems.
• Establish materials recovery and recycling curricula along with university research experience that will create an engineering workforce equipped to address the challenge of achieving cost-effective and profitable materials sustainability.

Universities

• Colorado School of Mines
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

View Center Website

Center Personnel