Portal:Recycling

Initial content

See Category:Mobile_Phone_Recycling for several pages from the report "End-of-Life Management of Cell Phones in the United States".

Example of categories used to tag objects (countries) and then create lists:

• Category:Countries with WEEE Directive Not Transposed as of November, 2005
• Category:Countries with WEEE Directive Transposed as of November, 2005

Modeling

• Recycling Agent 1 - initial demo agent
• Property:IsFormal
• Property:HasAssets
• Category:Properties_Used_for_Agent_Based_Models
• Template:RecyclingAgent
• Form:RecyclingAgent

Information to document

This is a preliminary list of various topics to document that are relevant for studying Recycling.

Type of regulation (governments, or municipality, states)

• Voluntary
• Extended Producer Responsibility
• Deposit Fee
• Up-Front Fee

EoL Policy in different Countries

• US Federal
• US by state
• EU Directives
• EU by state member
• Japan
• Canada

Actors

Metals Associations

• Nickel
• Steel

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Processes (agents - municipalities, NGOs companies, etc.)

• landfill
• incineration
• formal recycling
• informal recycling
• re-use of parts
• re-use of products
• collection
• transportation
• sorting

Economic properties

• cost
• revenue

Environmental properties

• any LCI data for energy, waste, toxicity, CO2, heavy metals, VOCs, water
• materials used
• Journal Publications
  • JIE
  • Operations (Closed-loop supply chains)

Social properties

• access to communication, clothing, etc.

Products

• WEEE (electronics) (separate processes for cell phones, white goods, computers, etc.)
• ELV's (end of life vehicles)
• clothes, shoes
• tires
• packaging materials
• plastic, glass, aluminum containers
• carpet
• ink cartridges

Materials recycled

• Precious metals
  • Gold
  • Silver
  • Palladium
  • Platinum
• Ferrous Metals
• Nonferrous metals
• Copper
• Plastics
• Fibers