The role of resource recycling |
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| Authors: | Taneomi Harada |
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| Institution: | (1) Dept. of Mineral Resources Engineering, School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Ohkubo 3-4-1, Shinjuku-ku, 169 Tokyo, Japan |
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| Abstract: | Resource recycling reduces the amount of waste discharged into the global environment. The waste reduction achieved by thorough recycling is substantial. Recycling is thus an inseparable part of global environmental protection.We human beings have used mineral resources since the birth of our species. The quantities and increasingly complex forms in which mineral resources have been used at different times in our prehistory and history serve as indices of civilization's advancement. But on the eve of the 21st century, environmental pollution and global warming stemming from spiraling resource and energy consumption pose serious dilemmas for humanity. The rapidity with which our resource consumption has increased approximates exponential growth.The worsening condition of the earth's environment because of massive resource and energy consumption is the result of activity at many stages of production, from the mining of mineral resources to the manufacture of finished products; the culmination of the process is the disposal of products as waste after their use. As we shall see from examples given in this paper, efforts are being made to solve this problem through recycling; but in many areas the problems remain incompletely solved or unsolved altogether. |
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| Keywords: | Resource recycling Industrial waste Municipal waste Resource refuse |
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