Secondhand material ~recycling management

No longer the preserve of environmental fanatics, recycling is now an economic and legal issue for all manufacturing companies. This paper describes how firms at every stage of the supply chain, from raw material producers through manufacturers to distributors, will soon be required to share more and more responsibility for the final fate of their products. This will in turn place new constraints on manufacturing and design for manufacture, in terms of material selection, process routes and detailed design.