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  1. Industrial Engineering, Universidad Icesi, Calle No. 18 122-135, 572, Cali, Valle, Colombia

    Katherine Ortegon

  2. Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA

    Loring Nies

  3. Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA

    John W. Sutherland

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  2. Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Mechanical Engineering Department, Trois-Rivieres, Québec, Canada

    Luc Laperrière

  3. Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

    Gunther Reinhart

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    Wim Dewulf Associate Professor

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Ortegon, K., Nies, L., Sutherland, J.W. (2016). Recycling. In: The International Academy for Produ, Laperrière, L., Reinhart, G. (eds) CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35950-7_6611-4

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