Material flows of end-of-life home appliances in Japan

Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 46-55

  Murakami, Shinsuke ^a   Terazono, Atsushi ^a   Abe, Naoya ^a   Moriguchi, Yuichi ^a   Miyakawa, Hideki ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b Recycle One Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

E wastes; EOL; Home appliances; Material flow analysis; Recycling; Transboundary movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645135447     PISSN: 14384957     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10163-005-0143-4     Document Type: Article

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