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Factor X

Re-source - Designing the Recycling Society

  • Traces history and progress of efforts to meet the Sustainability Strategy of 2002 goal of doubling raw material productivity by 2020, compared to 1994
  • Reviews current initiatives and activities, identifies areas for action and describes measures to increase resource efficiency
  • Benefits researchers in recycling and raw materials management, resource administrators and managers, policy makers and politicians

Part of the book series: Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science (ECOE)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Taking Into Account the Whole Life Cycle: Three Examples

    1. Recycling of Precious and Special Metals

      • Christian Hagelüken
      Pages 221-241
    2. Transboundary Shipment of Electronic Scrap

      • Knut Sander, Joachim Wuttke
      Pages 243-260
  2. Concluding Chapter

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 275-275
    2. About the Need of Resource Efficiency Programmes: The Editors’ View

      • Michael Angrick, Andreas Burger, Harry Lehmann
      Pages 277-279
  3. Back Matter

    Pages 281-289

About this book

Factor X: Re-source—Designing the Recycling Society explores the role of recycling in efforts to achieve the sustainable world envisioned in the Federal Environment Ministry’s Resource Efficiency Programme, known as ProgRess. The chapters build a roadmap to a Recycling Society in which the decoupling of resource consumption and economic growth is accomplished.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Umweltbundesamt, UBA, Sustainable Production and Products, The Federal Environment Agency, Dessau-Roßlau, Germany

    Michael Angrick

  • Umweltbundesamt, UBA, Economic and Social Envir. Issues, The Federal Environment Agency, Dessau-Roßlau, Germany

    Andreas Burger

  • Umweltbundesamt, UBA, Environmental Planning and Sustainabilit, The Federal Environment Agency, Dessau-Roßlau, Germany

    Harry Lehmann

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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