The exhibition

Raw Material
The basic material from which a product is manufactured or made. (Oxford)

Without raw materials, we would not have the products we use every day. Electrical and electronic equipment, like our smartphones, are rich in precious, rare, expensive metals; and they are rapidly becoming waste.

Transition 
A passing or passage from one condition, action, or (rarely) place, to another. (Oxford)

Certain raw materials difficult to source are needed to produce essential technologies for energy and digital transition. These are the "critical raw materials".

Critical 
Serious, uncertain and possibly dangerous. (Oxford)

Rare earth elements are defined as "critical" mainly because they mostly come from countries that do not guarantee
respect for people and for the environment.

Critico 
Che è in relazione con una crisi, perciò grave, difficile, pericoloso. (Treccani) 

Le Terre Rare sono definite “critiche” soprattutto perché arrivano per lo più da Paesi che non garantiscono il rispetto delle persone e dell’ambiente. 

Extract
To get out (the contents of anything) by force effort, or contrivance. (Oxford)

There are research activities aiming to mine raw materials more efficiently and to reduce social and environmental impact by extracting them at great depths, from the ocean floor, from seawater, and even from the moon.

Resource 
Stocks or reserves of money, material, people or some other asset, which can be drawn on when necessary. (Oxford)

By changing perspective, urban and mining land fills become valuable resources. New ways to reuse existing resources can be imagined.

Circular
Moving around in a circle. (Oxford)

The European Union is aiming to share and reuse products, design them to increase their lifetime, refurbish and remanufacture them, and finally recycle them. A great help comes from scientific research