Chapter 1
Recycling
A Key Factor for Resource Efficiency
, and 1Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands 2Outotec Oyj, Espoo, Finland 3Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
Abstract
Industrial society has become extremely dependent on resources, as it produces more, builds an increasingly complex society and accumulates an incredible volume of resources. The materials are drawn from natural resources. However, the Earth's resources are not infinite, but until recently, they have seemed to be. Increasingly we realize that our society may be approaching certain fundamental limits. This has made access to materials an issue of national security of many nations, ...
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