Product design for disassembly and bulk recycling
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
1-1-1998
Abstract
The recycling of manufactured products depends greatly on the efficiency with which material can be separated from each other. For the long term, recycling can be made more effective by the design of products for greater use of disassembly and recycling. This requires the development of suitable product analysis tools to enable design teams to evaluate the ease of disassembly and recycling of alternative product concepts during the early stages of design This paper describes the development of product analysis procedures for combined disassembly and bulk recycling such that consequences of material selection upon the end-oflife recovery of materials can be investigated.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology
Volume
47
Issue
1
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Sodhi, M., and W. A. Knight. "Product design for disassembly and bulk recycling." CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology 47, 1 (1998). doi: 10.1016/s0007-8506(07)62798-x.