Jackson, Randall; Choi, Taelim; Green Leigh, Nancey - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2008
Recycling and remanufacturing activities are gaining in importance, as a growing population and economy use up and wear … 100 to 250 million such items each year. As discard volumes rise and as resource scarcity becomes more critical, recycling … characteristics peculiar to recycling and remanufacturing complicate the process. This paper enumerates a number of such dimensions of …