Current international flows of electronic waste, future tasks, and possible solutions

E-Waste Management: From Waste to Resource

Volumn 9780203116456, Issue , 2012, Pages 137-164

  Terazono, Atsushi ^a   Yoshida, Aya ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING; NATURAL RESOURCES; SOLID WASTES; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ELECTRONIC WASTE;

EID: 84899017602     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203116456     Document Type: Chapter

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