Skip to Main Content
Aluminum Recycling, 2nd Edition
book

Aluminum Recycling, 2nd Edition

by Mark E. Schlesinger
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
282 pages
9h 56m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Aluminum Recycling, 2nd Edition
45
4
Aluminum Recycling
Economics
Although public support for recycling as a means of achieving social goals is wide-
spread, in the end recycling is not a religious activity. It is not carried out by people
who are trying to save the planet. Recycling is carried out by people and organiza-
tions who are trying to earn a prot. They face competition from other recyclers and
from producers of primary material and do not control the price of their product.
Their success depends on their ability to purchase raw materials at the lowest pos-
sible price and process them at the lowest possible cost. As a result, the economics
of recycling is an important ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Control for Aluminum Production and Other Processing Industries

Control for Aluminum Production and Other Processing Industries

Mark P. Taylor, John J. Chen, Brent Richmond Young
Handbook of Recycling

Handbook of Recycling

Ernst Worrell, Markus A. Reuter

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781466570245