Handbook of Recycling

State-of-the-art for Practitioners, Analysts, and Scientists

Edited by

Ernst Worrell, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
Markus Reuter

In concept, this book is an Encyclopedia-style authoritative description of the various aspects of material reuse and recycling (including technology, policy, economics) by leading authors from around the globe.

This book resolves the problem of there currently (nor published in the past decade) being no single book that provides an authoritative review of the state-of-the-art in recycling. This book should resolve that, by providing a state-of-the-art review of all aspects of recycling.

The author's intention in writing this book was to provide the market with a basic textbook on recycling that could be used by students, scholars, and decision makers, as well as stakeholders in the recycling industry, for the next few years.

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Hardbound, 560 Pages

Published: September 2013

Imprint: Elsevier

ISBN: 978-0-12-396459-5

Definitions & Terminology
Introduce key terms used in the literature and in the book and provide definitions
Recycling & Sustainable Development
Linkages between recycling and energy and other resources, as well as reduced environmental impact of reduced mining (also introduce concepts such as the urban mine, urban forest)
Material flows & Recycling
Stocks & flows
General overview of global material flows
Global and regional material flows and role of recycling for key materials:
Iron & steel
Aluminium
Copper
Lead
Other Metals (incl. Pt, Zinc, Tin, rare earth metals)
Lumber
Pulp & paper
Plastics
Glass
Textile
Cement & concrete/construction waste
Industrial by-products (e.g. slags, fly ash)
Re-use
Non-destructive recycling
Packaging
Clothing & textile
Consumer products
Construction materials
Recycling
Description of (common) recycling technology (incl. technology characterization, energy use, efficiency)
Iron & steel
Aluminium
Copper
Lead
Other Metals (incl. Pt, Zinc, Tin, rare earth metals)
Lumber
Pulp & paper
Plastics
Glass
Textile
Cement & concrete/construction waste
Industrial by-products (e.g. slags, fly ash)
Recovery and collection
Description of material recovery and collection (incl. technology and tyoical recovery rates)
Industrial wastes
Post-consumer wastes
Pre-sorted systems
Kerbside
Voluntary bring systems
Pricing systems
Post-collection sorting
Urban and rural systems
Formal and informal sectors (including scavenging)
Economics of recycling
Resource economics (introduction to)
Macro-economics of recycling (e.g. trade issues)
Economics of waste management
Price developments of secondary materials
Pricing of waste
Costs and benefits of recycling
Recycling policy
Role of recycling in waste management policy
Efficiency and effectiveness of various instruments:
Voluntary
Financial/economic
Regulatory
Information
Regional variations in policy
Geopolitics of recycling
Appendix
Statistical information (based on some of the data used in the chapters above)
Others?

Handbook of Recycling

State-of-the-art for Practitioners, Analysts, and Scientists

Contents