What gets recycled: An information theory based model for product recycling

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 7543-7550

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

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; MATERIALS SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DILUTE MIXTURES; RECYCLABLE PRODUCTS;

RECYCLING;

INFORMATION THEORY; MATERIALS SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RECYCLING;

COST; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODELING; RECYCLING; THEORY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DILUTION; EXTRACTION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MATERIALS; MODEL; REACTION ANALYSIS; RECYCLING; UNITED STATES;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; INFORMATION THEORY; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 35948931332     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es062254b     Document Type: Article

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