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http://dx.doi.org/10.7844/kirr.2016.25.5.3

Investigation and Analysis for the Status of Urban Mining Industry in Korea  

Kim, Lyung-Joo (Center for Resources Information and Management, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology)
Shin, Ho-Jung (Center for Resources Information and Management, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology)
Kang, Hong-Yoon (Center for Resources Information and Management, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology)
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Resources Recycling / v.25, no.5, 2016 , pp. 3-13 More about this Journal
Abstract
Statistics on the urban mining industry is the essential information to develop the urban mining industry systematically and the prerequisite way to understand its related trends. Status on domestic urban mining industry was thus investigated through the integrated method which uses both the top-down way based on the national statistics utilization and the bottom-up way based on field data gathering. Results indicated that the scale of metal resources produced through domestic urban mine was 19.6 trillion won, which corresponds to approximately 22 percent of metal demand in korea. The number of firms for urban mining was 917, and they are mostly placed in metropolitan area and Gyeongsang province. It was also found that about 58 percent of urban mining firms was in small business level less than 10 employees. Compared to the results in 2009, the number of urban mining companies in 2014 generally increased, and that of rare metal companies grew up significantly. This study is particularly different from the conventional statistics investigation on the point of the actual scale findings of metal resources based on the field data.
Keywords
Urban Mining; Urban Mining Industry; Rare Metal; Recycling; Market Size;
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