• Resources Recycling
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.64-73
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• 2018

This study aims to analysis the environmental impact on waste catalyst recycling technology using entire life cycle assessment. Environmental impacts consist of the five categories of impacts: global warming, resource depletion, acidification, eutrophication, and photochemical oxide production. The waste catalyst recycling presently have a GWP 3.53 ton $CO_2$ equivalent/ton, a ADP 0.017 ton Sb equivalent/ton, a AP 0.051 $SO_2$ equivalent/ton, a EP 0.0092 $PO{_4}^{3-}$ equivalent/ton, a 0.0019 ton $C_2H_4$ equivalent/ton. The smelting reduction process is the greatest contributor to all categories of environmental impacts in waste catalyst recycling. Electricity used in the smelting reduction process is the major contributor of all impact categories.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.31-39
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• 2016

Small household appliances such as electric rice cooker, a vacuum cleaner, an electric fan, etc. are diverse and complex due to the materials and components and waste streams from the manufacturing processes. In the present study, physical characterization of small e-wastes was analyzed on major items including electric rice cooker after manual dismantling. Small household appliances is an important potential source of waste plastic, however, recycling plastics from small e-waste is still unusual. The present communication gives results of separation processes on black plastics and the limitations of these sorting processes in used small household appliances.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.16-21
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• 1995

When waste t~re/~vastmz otor oil is pyrolyzed. most of them hecome gaseous produds. and thc remaining onc, whascwelght is ahout in% oi the waste Ore, is pyrolyced residue mnstly composcd oi ca~bnn black A rescsrcll was canicrl nut loutilize lhe pyralyred residue of waste tnelwuste lnotol 011 us retnin~cing agent of asphall concrete, bescd on iolelg~r lesearchrepurl. This shows thal the properlies ol asphall concrele ~nclud~cd~ugl ah~l~tyre, sistance to Tear. temperature-v~scusilysusceptil,ilily u e g reatly improved when lhe pellellrcd hrln aI carlmn hlack usmg petroleum o ~als a hinder Iar ihe pellels isused with asphalt. The surface of the pyralyred resirh~ei s covned by ocl film and thla lnakes good comllatibllity with asphallIn order lo ulilk pyrolyzed residue as a reinforcing agenl oi lhe itsphalt concrete, various tests such as Marshnll tcsi, wheeltracking, and revelhng test has been carried out a1 KLER, Ko~ea I-lighway Coo~poration, and TCMO. Tcst lcsults satirry KSslandard, show "npmvements an the dynam~cs tab~l~lzym, d incrcase reslslance to wear at cold telnpelatule Invrsligadon wascarlied oul to sludg the possibility of soil pallul~on when pyrolyzed residue is used as a tzmioicing agenl. E~pcrimentalresulls show the rcsidue contained in thc asphall docs not cause cnv~ranma~lparlo blems.e cnv~ranma~lparlo blems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Resources Recycling Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.304-307
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• 2005

Printed circuit boards (PCBs) of the printer are composed of various organic and inorganic compounds as well as metals and alloys. This study was conducted to recover valuable metals from used PCBS by physical separation and leaching. The PCBs was crushed, sieved, classified by zig zag classifier and magnetic constituents were removed by the magnetic separation. The non-magnetic constituents of sizes between 1.2 and 0.6 mm especially containing high quantity of Cu (e.g. 83% on metal base and 31% on total base) were used for the leaching experiment. The effect of the nature and concentration of acids and reaction temperature were investigated. The Cu leaching rate to 98.5% in 2M nitric acid, pulp density 100g/L, $90^{\circ}C$, 300rpm, 1hr leaching.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.3-8
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• 2019

Recently, plastic waste in Korea has been recognized as a critical issue due to an increase in massive production of plastics, difficulty in disposal of waste plastics, and public recognition of toxicity in micro-plastics, etc. To resolve those problems, the regulation to reduce plastics consumption may be primarily considered but, in this case, clarification should be made on the rationales and the action plans in the regulation for individual waste plastic items. Another problem is the small capital sizes of domestic recycling companies, which leads to poor R&D capacity, low recycling yields and thus lowering values of recycling items. This adversely affects consumers' perception. The R&D toward recycling technical progress should take into account the environmental friendliness and recyclability from the early product design stages. Certainly, this should be supported in governmental policy and public action plans. In addition, by referring to advanced policies of i.e. European Union, the recycling industry should be recognized as an opportunity toward new investment & employment. If necessary, the regulation of plastic consumption through a formal evaluation process such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) will also be helpful. The values of recycled plastics should be improved through the identification and elimination of harmful chemical substances potentially contained in the products.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.59-69
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• 1995

Distillation oI the dust generated during waste tue pyrolysis was perIomerl to rccover valuable metal sucll as zlnc. lead and iron. Pemcahilily and carnprcssivc tests were pursucd to ahlain the basic dala for cslraclian of zinc from the slntering propcrtp ol stccl making dusts and distilled carhon of waste tires as wcll as wastc pulp sludge mixlure hr~quet were investigated at various sinlcring lempcraturcs. Permeablllly rncieased with increastng amount of waste pulp in specil~cd istilled carhon due tn the fnrmat~ono f porusily in lhe sample TIE co~npress~vsctr ength showed the vanous values wlth different amDunl of dislilled-carhon adrlit~nilsa nd at diIIerenl sinlering tcmpcralures. X-ray diffifraction anvlyscs oI a hnquet rn~rhtre of steelmaking dusts(20Q didilled carhon and 10% waste pulp sblered ;>I SOOT) showcd thal the briquet consisted ot ZnO and Fc,O.,, hut was not found at the hriguet rintered at over 10OO'C. Crude zinc oxide sintered a1 IOOOC contained OZA Zn.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.14-22
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• 2019

Development of technology makes LED an economical option because of lower energy consumption and better environmental impact. Because higher consumer demand the LED market is expanding rapidly due to its environment-friendly advantages. Expansion of LED application, development of various fusion technologies, the emergence of new markets, and the large-scale expansion of markets would lead to a large volume of e-waste generation with valorization potential. Currently, most of the generated waste being that landfilled and incinerated due to the absence of technology and management system. In this paper, we review the current status of LED waste recycling and analyzes the available recycling technologies.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.3-9
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• 2008

The Directive on the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment commonly referred to as the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive or RoHS was adopted in February 2003 by the European Union. The RoHS directive took effect on 1 July 2006, and is required to be enforced and become law in each member state. This directive restricts the use of six hazardous materials in the manufacture of various types of electronic and electrical equipment. It is closely linked with the waste electrical and electronic equipment directive (WEEE) 2002/96/EC which sets collection, recycling and recovery targets for electrical goods and is part of a legislative initiative to solve the problem of huge amounts of toxic e-waste.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.23-31
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• 2016

It was found that there was no problem in recycling by-products (waste rock and tailings) from Yangyang iron mine themselves through matter conversion because they are not hazardous according to results of KSLT method. In case of using tailings as sub-materials of cement, it recommended the use of less than 3% tailings dosage not to exceed 0.6% of total alkali ($R_2O$) content based on standard quality of portland cement (KS L 5201). Non sintered eco-brick corresponding to class 1 quality of recycled clay brick (KS I 3013) can replace 15% of cement with tailings and 100% of general fine aggregate with waste rock from iron mine. As mentioned above, recycling the by-products (waste rock and tailings) as sub-materials of cement and non sintered eco-brick could gain both environmental and economic benefits, that is, reduction of scale and maintenance cost of tailing ponds, decrease of energy use and $CO_2$ emission.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.71-77
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• 2013

Electronic products such as appliances, computers, and cellular phones have printed circuit boards (PCBs) in common and the PCBs in the waste electronic products contain valuable metals and organic resins. In Korea, recovery and recycling of the organic resins as well as the valuable metallics from the wastes are required indeed as the most of resources are being imported from abroad. In this article, the patents and papers for the recycling of organic residues from the waste PCBs were collected and analyzed. The open patents of USA (US), European Union (EP), Japan (JP), and Korea (KR) and SCI journals from 1979 to 2012 were investigated. The patents and journals were collected using key-words and filtered by the definition of the technology. The patents and journals were analyzed by the years, countries, companies, and technologies and the technical trends were discussed in this paper. It is showed sluggish relatively activity of published papers and patent applications for polymer manufacturing technology in local and abroad.