The recent trend of e-waste recycling and rare metal recovery in Japan

• Published in: WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment Vol. 1; pp. 3 - 14
• Main Author: Itoh, H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: Southampton WIT Press 2014; W I T Press
• Subjects: Air conditioners; Alliances; Aluminum; Automobile industry; Automobiles; Automotive electronics; Automotive parts; Batteries; Cameras; Cellular telephones; Chemical treatment; Consoles; Copper; Digital cameras; Electronic waste; Furnaces; Household wastes; Incinerators; Industrial wastes; Landfills; Materials recovery; Metals; Motor vehicles; Optical disks; Organic chemistry; Polymers; Power plants; Printers; Purification; Raw materials; Reagents; Shredding; Substrates; Waste disposal; Waste disposal sites; Waste recycling; Wastes; Wastewater treatment; Wastewater treatment plants; INW, Japan; Japan

The efficient resource circulation of rare metals is one of the most important economic and political issues in an industrialized society. Rare and noble metals in e-wastes should be collected separately, treated by advanced processes, and then supplied as raw materials for high technology material...