Cash for your trash: Scrap recycling in America

Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-220

  Zimring, Carl ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

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