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A life cycle perspective on the environmental aspects of complex, emerging resource recovery systems: the case of bauxite residue

In: Handbook of the Circular Economy

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  • P. James Joyce
  • Anna Björklund

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Post-consumer household waste, the main focus of the most familiar expressions of the circular economy, only accounts for around 8% of waste generation in the EU. Recovery of resources through the recycling and reprocessing of industrial wastes therefore constitutes an important and oft-overlooked target for circular economy measures. Resource recovery from industrial wastes, however, can have more in common with the refining of secondary ores than with recycling processes. As a result, the environmental benefits of waste valorisation are not as straightforward to understand as those associated with recycling. In this chapter a set of semi-quantitative and quantitative approaches for the assessment of resource recovery processes from a life cycle perspective are presented, alongside a case study for novel and complex valorisation routes of an important and highly abundant industrial waste; bauxite residue.

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  • P. James Joyce & Anna Björklund, 2020. "A life cycle perspective on the environmental aspects of complex, emerging resource recovery systems: the case of bauxite residue," Chapters, in: Miguel Brandão & David Lazarevic & Göran Finnveden (ed.), Handbook of the Circular Economy, chapter 34, pages 452-464, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:18519_34
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