Handbook of Recycling

Table of Contents

I RECYCLING IN CONTEXT 1 Recycling: A Key Factor for Resource Efficiency 2 Definitions and Terminology 3 Recycling in Context 4 Recycling Rare Metals 5 Theory and Tools of Physical Separation/Recycling

II RECYCLING APPLICATION & TECHNOLOGY 6 Recycling of Steel 7 Copper Recycling 8 Lead Recycling 9 Zinc and Residue Recycling 10 Recycling of Rare Metals 11 Recycling of Lumber 12 Paper Recycling 13 Plastic Recycling 14 Glass Recycling 15 Textile Recycling 16 Cementitious Binders 17 Industrial By-products 18 Recovery of Metals from Different Secondary Resources (Waste) 19 Recycling of Carbon Fibers 20 Recycling of Construction and Demolition Wastes 21 Recycling of Packaging 22 Material-Centric (Aluminum and Copper) and Product-Centric (Cars, WEEE, TV, Lamps, Batteries, Catalysts) Recycling and DfR Rules 23 Separation of Large Municipal Solid Waste 24 Recovery of Construction and Demolition Wastes 25 Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Management 26 Developments in Collection of Municipal Solid Waste

III STRATEGY AND POLICY 27 From Recycling to Eco-design 28 Recycling and Labeling 29 Informal Waste Recycling in Developing Countries 30 Squaring the Circular Economy 31 The Economics of Recycling 32 Geopolitics of Resources and Recycling 33 Recycling in Waste Management Policy 34 Voluntary and Negotiated Agreements 35 Economic Instruments 36 Information Instruments 37 Regulatory Instruments: Sustainable Materials Management, Recycling, and the Law

Appendix 1: Physical Separation 101 Appendix 2: Thermodynamics 101 Appendix 3: Life-Cycle Assessment

Authors

Worrell, Ernst Ernst Worrell is professor 'Energy, Resources & Technological Change' at Utrecht University. From 2004 till 2010 he was Director Energy Use & Efficiency at Ecofys, an international sustainable energy consulting company. He was staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 1998 till 2008, leading the industrial energy assessment research. Until 1998 he co-led the energy and material efficiency group at the Department of Science, Technology and Society of Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He was a visiting scientist at Princeton University (USA) in 1994-1995, and a visiting professor at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil 1996). He is an internationally recognized expert on industrial energy efficiency. His has over 20 years experience in research and evaluation projects in industrial energy and material efficiency improvement, as well as waste management and processing. He has worked with chemical, oil refining, pulp & paper, iron & steel, cement, glass, food and many other industries around the globe. He advises policy programs, policy makers, multi-laterals, and corporate decision makers. He is co-author of 4 IPCC reports, including the 4th Assessment Report. He is (co-) author of over 300 publications. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Resources, Conservation and Recycling until 2013, and associate editor of Energy, the International Journal and Energy Efficiency, the Encyclopedia of Energy, and editor of the award winning Handbook of Recycling Reuter, Markus Markus Reuter is Director of Technology Management for Outotec, a global leader in minerals and metals processing technology. He is also Professor Emeritus at Delft University and former Professor of Melbourne University. Markus previously worked for the European metallurgical and recycling industries (collectively eWaste) as well as automobile manufacturers. He has over 370 publications covering work on recycling, design for recycling, simulation process control and extractive metallurgy. He has written a work on recycling, metallurgy and design for sustainability, metrics of material and metal ecology.