Recycling rate and target setting: challenges for standardized measurement

Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 14-21

  Hotta, Yasuhiko ^a   Visvanathan, Chettiyappan ^b   Kojima, Michikazu ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES   (Japan)

^b ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^c INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPING ECONOMIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diversion rate; Indicator; Recycling rate; Standardization; Target setting

Indexed keywords

INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); SOLID WASTES; STANDARDIZATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

COLLECTION RATES; DIVERSION RATE; RECOVERY RATE; RECYCLING RATE; RESOURCE SAVINGS; STANDARDIZED MEASUREMENT; TARGET SETTING; WASTE RECYCLING;

RECYCLING;

EID: 85018602782     PISSN: 14384957     EISSN: 16118227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10163-015-0361-3     Document Type: Review

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