Squaring the Circular Economy: The Role of Recycling within a Hierarchy of Material Management Strategies

Handbook of Recycling: State-of-the-art for Practitioners, Analysts, and Scientists

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 445-477

  Allwood, Julian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decomposing; Demand reduction; Downcycling; Life extension; Lightweight design; Reuse; Scrap reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942134098     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-396459-5.00030-1     Document Type: Chapter

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