ProSUM: a centralised database for secondary critical raw materials

ProSUM
Type of organisation or company
Country
Czechia
Denmark
France
Germany
Netherlands
Slovenia
Sweden
United Kingdom
City
Delft
Language for original content
Project elaborated in partnership
Yes
Scope
Start/End date
to
Ongoing
No
Type of funding
Description

The ProSUM project delivered the first Urban Mine Knowledge Data Platform, a centralised database of all available data and information on stocks, flows and treatment of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), end-of-life vehicles (ELVs), batteries and mining wastes.

Until the development of the Urban Mine Knowledge Data Platform, the data on critical raw materials was produced by a variety of institutions including government agencies, universities, NGOs and industry and lay scattered in different databases, formats and reports which were difficult to compare or aggregate. ProSUM changed all this.

The availability of primary and secondary raw materials data, easily accessible in one platform, provides the foundation for improving Europe’s position on raw material supply. ProSUM provides data for improving the management of these wastes and enhancing the resource efficiency of collection, treatment and recycling. 

Main activity field
Identified challenge (s)
Main results

The project set up a platform for urban mining of CRMs in waste electrical and electronic equipment, end-of-life vehicles, batteries and mining wastes. See the project's final report.