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Rè¹ kåw«Èw¤È«ÈwêUE¨¿Þ¿zÂR[XC9808579 åäsÂtaerªÂt 01In order to establish a sustainable society, with practical material recycling, it is appropriate to focus on a range of guidinggEarth principles,hincluding the character and application of hydrothermal processes. In this paper, it is demonstrated how information obtained from the study of fundamental Earth principles can be used to inspire the development of new methods for material recycling, such as the following: 1) Hydro thermal hotpressing processes, simulating the formation of sedimentary rock sequences, can be used for the solidication of toxic and hazardous materials. 2) Organic materials could be formed from CO 2 under hydrothermal conditions (using Fe and Ni metals, and low valence Fe oxides), at temperature and pressure conditions consistent with a subduction (tectonic) setting, such as (under Japan) where the Pacic Plate sinks beneath the (Eurasian) continental plate. 3) Diamondstructured carbon may be formed from toxic chlorinated hydrocarbon, in very high pressure regions of the Earth, and at high alkaline hydrothermal con ditions, where magma formation may occur. 4) High temperature dry steam in rock fractures (at near criti cal conditions \i.e. below saturated vapor pressure, but relatively high pressure) is not only a source/carri er of noble metals, including gold, silver and copper, but also ceramic materials, silica and alumina. Its laboratory simulation may also be a guide for the formation of thin layer silicate ceramics on metal plates (e.g. SUS304 nickel alloy). 5) To design an underground boiler in hot dry rock, nonequilibrium dissolution and deposition hydrothermal processes may be studied using a tube reactor, which simulates uid ow and temperature gradients in fractured hot rock.