Acceptance of mobile phone return programmes for increased resource efficiency by young people-experiences from a German research project

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Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 385-405

  Welfens, Maria Jolanta ^a   Nordmann, Julia ^a   Seibt, Alexandra ^a   Schmitt, Martina ^a  

^a and Energy   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecological rucksack; Education for sustainability; Mobile phone return programmes; Recycling; Resource efficiency; Sustainable consumption

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026605563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20799276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/resources2030385     Document Type: Article

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