Closed loop weee recycling? challenges and opportunities for a global recycling society

TMS Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1049-1054

  Meskers, C E M ^a   Hageuken C ^a  

^a UMICORE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Closed loop; Material cycles; Recycling; WEEE

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP; CLOSED LOOPS; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; END-OF-LIFE; END-OF-LIFE ELECTRONICS; MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS; MATERIAL CYCLES; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PRODUCT CYCLE; RECYCLING SYSTEMS; WEEE; MATERIAL CYCLE;

CONSUMER PRODUCTS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; WASTE MANAGEMENT; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION; METAL RECOVERY; RECYCLING;

RECYCLING; MINERALS;

EID: 67449119595     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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