Data availability and the need for research to localize, quantify and recycle critical metals in information technology, telecommunication and consumer equipment

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 31, Issue 10 SUPPL., 2013, Pages 3-16

  Chancerel, Perrine ^a   Rotter, Vera Susanne ^a   Ueberschaar, Maximilian ^a   Marwede, Max ^a   Nissen, Nils F ^b   Lang, Klaus Dieter ^a,b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER IZM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Critical metals; E waste; Electronic waste; Recycling; Resources; WEEE

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING SOLUTIONS; E-WASTE; ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ELECTRONIC WASTE; RARE EARTHS ELEMENTS; RESOURCES; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE LAYER; WEEE;

COBALT; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FLAME RETARDANTS; GALLIUM; GERMANIUM; INDIUM; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MANUFACTURE; METAL REFINERIES; METALS; RARE EARTHS; RECYCLING; RESEARCH; TANTALUM; TANTALUM OXIDES; TELECOMMUNICATION; TIN OXIDES; WASTES;

METAL RECOVERY;

ANTIMONY; CERIUM; COBALT; DYSPROSIUM; EUROPIUM; GADOLINIUM; GALLIUM; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; GERMANIUM; INDIUM; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; LANTHANUM; LUTETIUM; METAL; NEODYMIUM; PHOSPHORUS; TANTALUM; YTTRIUM;

ANTIMONY; DATA ACQUISITION; DISSIPATION; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE; METAL; RECYCLING; RESEARCH; TELECOMMUNICATION;

CONSUMER; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; METAL RECOVERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; REVIEW; TELECOMMUNICATION;

CRITICAL METALS; E-WASTE; ELECTRONIC WASTE; RECYCLING; RESOURCES; WEEE;

ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; ELECTRONIC WASTE; METALS; RECYCLING;

EID: 84896805940     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X13499814     Document Type: Review

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