This is the 2nd edition of the Handbook of Recycling, published this month and edited by Christina Meskers, Ernst Worrell and Markus A. Reuter.
The first edition was winner of the International Solid Waste Association's 2014 Publication Award and is an authoritative review of the current state of recycling, reuse and reclamation processes commonly implemented today and how they interact with one another.
Fully updated to cover recent developments in the field, this second edition has also been restructured to cover General Aspects of Recycling, Applications, Technology, Recovery and Collection, Economics, Governance and Policy. Several new chapters on global recycled material flows, sludges, reinforced plastics, and landfill mining have been added. It concludes with a review of the policy and economic implications, including the impact of recycling on energy use, sustainable development, and the environment.
This book is a crucial aid to students and researchers in a range of disciplines, from materials and environmental science to public policy studies.
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Thanks Barry!
ReplyDeleteThis 2nd edition book is a culmination of what we started discussing early 2000s, the basis of the Sustainable Minerals Conference Series.
We developed and discuss among others in the book (and 2 previous ones, the 1st published 2005) the detail to understand the limits of recycling on a thermodynamic basis, evolving theory and software to quantify the downward spiral of society’s circular economy embracing also a minerals engineering and metallurgical point of view i.e. particle complexity, liberation etc. also linked to product design and process metallurgy. Thanks for the support over the close to 20 years after You and started discussing sustainability early 2000s. As you know, some of this work is also published in Minerals Engineering as a result.
Take care and kind regards,
Markus Reuter.