A life cycle perspective on the environmental aspects of complex, emerging resource recovery systems: the case of bauxite residue

P. James Joyce and Anna Björklund

Chapter 34 in Handbook of the Circular Economy, 2020, pp 452-464 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Post-consumer household waste, the main focus of the most familiar expressions of the circular economy, only accounts for around 8% of waste generation in the EU. Recovery of resources through the recycling and reprocessing of industrial wastes therefore constitutes an important and oft-overlooked target for circular economy measures. Resource recovery from industrial wastes, however, can have more in common with the refining of secondary ores than with recycling processes. As a result, the environmental benefits of waste valorisation are not as straightforward to understand as those associated with recycling. In this chapter a set of semi-quantitative and quantitative approaches for the assessment of resource recovery processes from a life cycle perspective are presented, alongside a case study for novel and complex valorisation routes of an important and highly abundant industrial waste; bauxite residue.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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