Assessing Mineral Resources in Society: Metal recycling - Opportunities, Limits, Infrastructure - Factsheet

dc.contributor.author	United Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.author	International Resource Panel
dc.contributor.organization	International Resource Panel
dc.date.accessioned	2020-02-06T08:46:21Z
dc.date.available	2020-02-06T08:46:21Z
dc.date.issued	2013
dc.description	Due to increasingly complex products metal recycling in the 21st century is becoming a more challenging business. The report of UNEP’s International Resource Panel on “Metal Recycling – Opportunities, Limits, Infrastructure” clearly shows that a Product-Centric approach is necessary to promote high material recovery rates. Based on the holistic view of modern multi-material products this approach aims to maximize, by means of economically viable techniques, metals extraction from the complex interlinkages within. These products – analogous to natural minerals – should be regarded as “designed minerals” and technologies as well as infrastructure from primary metallurgy can be adapted and applied accordingly.	en
dc.format	Text
dc.identifier.uri	https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/31447
dc.language	English
dc.language	French
dc.language	Spanish
dc.language	Chinese
dc.relation.ispartof	IRP Reports
dc.rights.accessLevel	Public
dc.subject	metal
dc.subject	recycling
dc.subject.sdg	SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
dc.title	Assessing Mineral Resources in Society: Metal recycling - Opportunities, Limits, Infrastructure - Factsheet	en
dc.type	Communication or other resource