The Impact of the Combination of Technology, Legislation and Economy on the Resource Cycle

摘要

This paper explores the complex interrelationship between the resource cycle, recycling and metal production as a function of economics, environmental legislation, and product design. It is argued that central to optimising this resource cycle lies the control in particular of physical separation plants by the application of advanced sensor technology and sorting equipment as well suitable control and sampling algorithms supported by optimising mass balance models.