@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt6wp6zb.12,
 ISBN = {9789089645296},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wp6zb.12},
 abstract = {Electronic devices and domestic appliances generally contain two types of material: plastics and metals. Most plastics are extremely durable and persist well beyond the economic lifetimes of products, yet cables, cars and consumer electronics and the large volumes of plastics they contain are dumped or incinerated as waste, even though they could be recycled. The metals – including iron, copper and aluminium – may be present in the form of alloys, immobilized in structures, dissolved in liquids or in powder form, making it difficult and expensive to recover them in the quantities and levels of quality needed for their eventual},
 bookauthor = {Rob Weterings and Ton Bastein and Arnold Tukker and Michel Rademaker and Marjolein de Ridder},
 booktitle = {Resources for our Future: Key Issues and Best Practices in Resource Efficiency},
 pages = {137--150},
 publisher = {Amsterdam University Press},
 title = {Resource efficiency in the metal and consumer electronics industries},
 year = {2013}
}