Material recycling at product end-of-life

IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 206-211

  Dahmus, Jeffrey B ^a   Gutowski, Timothy G ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Materials; Mixing; Product design; Recycling; Separation

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE; LIFE CYCLE; MINING; MIXING; ORES; PRODUCT DESIGN; SEPARATION;

ORE GRADES;

RECYCLING;

EID: 33845587025     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISEE.2006.1650062     Document Type: Conference Paper

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