Simone Fant

Freelance journalist. He covers climate, environment, and circular economy with in-depth reporting and investigations. At Renewable Matter, he writes and hosts the weekly podcast 5 Circular News. A two-time grantee of the Journalism fund's investigative journalism program, in 2022 he won the Fenice CONAI award for young environmental journalism.

The world is craving lithium, and geothermal could relieve it. But at what impact?

Cesano is a small town located in the volcanic region of the Sibillini mountains, near Rome. In 1975 Enel discovered a geothermal fluid in the roots of this land that is particularly interesting for...

Recycling Covid masks: here are those who attempt it around the world

Sanitary masks have been keeping us company for almost two years now. Every day we buy them, we wear them to protect us from the virus, and finally we throw them away when they exhaust their functio...

Rockwool: Circular and Fireproof Insulation

The construction sector, also thanks to recent regulatory provisions, is decisively directing its efforts toward circularity. Rockwool products can provide an important contribution and they also im...

Predictive maintenance: predicting the future while saving resources

An error, a failure, a sudden malfunction. Imagining the unexpected is the goal of the predictive maintenance system that provides manufacturing companies with a prediction of a future failure of ph...