Designing for materials recovery: Understanding the liberation of plastics

Proceedings, Annual Conference - Canadian Society for Civil Engineering

Volumn 2003, Issue , 2003, Pages 669-678

  Jeke, L ^a   Tam, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILES; COMMINUTION; LAND FILL; MACHINE DESIGN; RECYCLING;

AUTOMOTIVE HULKS; AUTOMOTIVE SHREDDER RESIDUE (ASR); DESIGN-FOR-ENVIRONMENT (DFE);

PLASTIC BUILDING MATERIALS;

EID: 33645715312     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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