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Solid Waste Management pp 81–115Cite as

Materials Recovery and Recycling

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Reduce, recycle, reuse and recover are the most important component of solid waste management. In the absence of these components, over a span of time there will be nothing left in the world for further use.

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  1. Biomedical Waste, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, Church Street, Bangalore, 560001, India

    Ramesha Chandrappa

  2. Chemical Engineering Department, Loughborough University, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, UK

    Diganta Bhusan Das

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Chandrappa, R., Das, D.B. (2012). Materials Recovery and Recycling. In: Solid Waste Management. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28681-0_4

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