Recycling metals for the environment

Annual Review of Energy and the Environment

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 465-497

  Wernick, Iddo K ^a   Themelis, Nickolas J ^b  

^a Center for International Forestry Research   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Alloy separation; Environmental regulation; Metals waste streams; Recovery processes; Scrap metal recycling

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT; PUBLIC POLICY; SCRAP METAL REPROCESSING; WASTE UTILIZATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION;

RECYCLING;

EID: 3643060509     PISSN: 10563466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.energy.23.1.465     Document Type: Article

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