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Materials recycling and industrial ecology

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New legislation has been passed in an attempt to minimize industrial waste and promote recycling. What does this mean for materials science?

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Figure 1: The anticipated quantity of leaded waste from cathode-ray tubes that would be introduced into the market if the tubes are banned in the United States.
Figure 2: The Khian sea barge docked in Florida (June, 2002).

Image courtesy of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (www.dep.state.pa.us)

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  1. Lally School of Management and Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, 12180, New York, USA

    Jonathan Linton

  2. Management Science Area, Schulich School of Business, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, M3J 1P3, Ontario, Canada

    Julian Scott Yeomans

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Linton, J., Yeomans, J. Materials recycling and industrial ecology. Nature Mater 3, 199–201 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1101

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