What Do We Know About Metal Recycling Rates

Graedel, T. E. "What Do We Know About Metal Recycling Rates?" What Do We Know About Metal Recycling Rates? 15.3 (2011): 355-66. Academic Search Complete. Web. 15 Sept. 2011.

This article was received from NSU's database on myNSU. Basically this article is talking about recycling of metal in the world today. Being that there is use of metal every day metal is highly needed and you can get it at a low price. But due to the tearing down of building the recycling of metal and very important because it keeps the metal at low prices. The article help out a lot in narrow my topic due to it being one main topic on the recycling of metal. The article was very relevant to my topic but at the same time irrelevant being that it only focused on one topic and with recycling being such a hefty subject.

Sundin, Erik, Mats Björkman, Mats Eklund, Jörgen Eklund, and Inga-Lill Engkvist. "Improving the Layout of Recycling Centres by Use of Lean Production Principles." Waste Management 31.6 (2011): 1121-132. Print.

This article was received from NSU's database on myNSU. What this article mainly talking about is how there has been in increase in recycling into Sweden. This focus was to contribute to external environmental factors such as tougher legislation. It also spoke on how they got different trash such as hazardous waste to see how to better manage things like its kind. In this study they suffer problems such as queues of visitors, overloading of material and improper sorting. To fix this problem it showed that the recycling centre should design and manage according to lean production principles.

Ogbeide,, S. O. "An Investigation To The Recycling Of Spent Engine Oil." An Investigation To The Recycling Of Spent Engine Oil 3.1 (2010): 32-35. Academic Search Complete. Web. 15 Sept. 2011. <http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.nsula.edu/ehost/detail?sid

This article was received from NSU's database on myNSU. This paper describes an investigation carried out to study the recycling of spent engine oil as a result of random disposal of the spent engine oil into the surrounding which has contributed immensely to the level of environmental pollution in our society and nation at large. This paper identify a unique method by which the spent oil is adequately recycled for reuse, the cost of recycling is relatively low compared from its production from crude oil as the numbers of purification stages are reduced