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Every sector faces unique challenges in the transition to sustainability. Across each, materials will play a key role. That will depend on novel materials and processes, but these will only be effective with a solid understanding of the trends in the market. For each respective sector, the papers in this collection will explore the trends and drivers toward sustainability, the enabling materials technologies and challenges, and the tools to evaluate their implications.

Major sections in REWAS 2019 include:

Disruptive Material Manufacturing: Scaling and Systems Challenges

Education and Workforce Development

Rethinking Production

Secondary and Byproduct Sources of Materials, Minerals, and Metals

This collection addresses the pressing needs for sustainable technologies with reduced energy consumption and environmental pollutions and the development and application of alternative sustainable energy to maintain a green environment and efficient and long-lasting energy supply. Contributors represent both industry and academia and focus on new and efficient energy technologies including innovative ore beneficiation, smelting technologies, and recycling and waste heat recovery, as well as emerging novel energy solutions. The volume also covers a broad range of mature and new technological aspects of sustainable energy ecosystems, processes that improve energy efficiency, reduce thermal emissions, and reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions. Authors also explore the valorization of materials and their embodied energy including byproducts or coproducts from ferrous and nonferrous industries, batteries, electronics, and other complex secondary materials. 

The 8th installment of the REWAS conference series held at the TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition focuses on circular economy for the energy transition. The papers in this volume explore the latest technical and societal developments enabling sustainability within our global economy with an emphasis on recycling and waste management. The 2025 collection includes contributions from the following symposia: