Factor X : re-source - designing the recycling society
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Factor X : re-source - designing the recycling society
(Eco-efficiency in industry and science / series editor, Arnold Tukker, 30)
Springer, c2013
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.
Table of Contents
Preface
I. Sustainable Use of Natural Resources: A Global Challenge
1. Global Material Flows and Their Environmental Impacts
2. Improving Resource Efficiency - Key Question for Ecology and Economy
3. Economic Growth and Sustainable Development
4. Economic Growth and Resource Use
5. Resource Protection Policy from an Ngo Perspective
6. Developing a Legal Framework for Resource Conservation
Ii. Securing a Sustainable Supply of Raw Materials
7. An International Metal Covenant - A Step Towards Sustainable Global Material Flows?
8. The Austrian Raw Materials Plan
Iii. Sustainable Production and Consumption
9. Material Efficiency in the Production of Goods
Iv. Further Development of a Sound Waste Management
10. The Contribution of Recycling to Sustainability/ Strategies for Recycling and Resource Conservation
11. Perspectives for a Resource Efficient Waste Management
V. Taking into Account the Whole Life Cycle: Three Examples
12. Construction and Housing
12.1. Sustainment of the Existing Property
12.2. High Quality Recycling of Demolition Wastes
13. Rare Metals
13.1. The Importance of Rare/Critical Metals for Emerging (Green) Technologies (Titel Wird Noch Von Reller Verandert, Richtung)
13.2. Precious and Special Metal Recycling: Economical and Technical Aspects
13.3. Transboundary Shipment of Electronic Scrap
14. The Limited Resources of Phosphorus and How to Close the Phosphorus Cycle
Vi. Concluding Chapter
15. About the Need of a Resource Efficiency Programme
Index
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