Waste cascade optimisation

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Problem: We have different end-of-life products with product-specific material composition and material-specific elemental content. How should we cascade the different sorting/recovery/recycling technologies to maximise material recovery/minimize costs or GHG emissions in the waste mgt. industries?

Literature leads:

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Kondo, Y. and S. Nakamura. 2005. Waste input–output linear programming model with its application to eco-efficiency analysis. Economic Systems Research 17(4): 393–408. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09535310500283526. Accessed March 24, 2013.
Løvik, A.N., R. Modaresi, and D.B. Müller. 2014. Long-term strategies for increased recycling of automotive aluminum and its alloying elements. Environmental Science & Technology 48(8): 4257–4265. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24655476.
Ohno, H., K. Matsubae, K. Nakajima, Y. Kondo, S. Nakamura, and T. Nagasaka. 2015. Toward the efficient recycling of alloying elements from end of life vehicle steel scrap. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 100: 11–20. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0921344915000695. Accessed May 24, 2015.