Materials recovery: asset alchemy

Author

Porada, Thomas

Author_Institution

Digital Equipment Corp., Maynard, MA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

2-4 May 1994

Firstpage

171

Lastpage

173

Abstract

Corporate assets retain value long after their primary use has past. These assets end up being considered low value solid waste with disposal being their probable future. Management of waste as an asset rather than scrap may return significant value provided a means can be determined to cause the transformation. In the transformation process business controls including security become essential to ensure material accountability, asset diversion protection and environmentally responsible disposition. These topics are discussed with a focus on the operation of Digital´s US Resource Recovery Center (RRC) where the goal for landfill, verified through experience, is <1% of disposed materials

Keywords

DP industry; management; waste disposal; Digital Equipment Corporation; Digital´s US Resource Recovery Center; asset diversion protection; business controls; corporate assets; environmentally responsible disposition; low value solid waste; material accountability; materials recovery; security; waste management; Asset management; Environmental economics; Gold; Investments; Process control; Protection; Recycling; Security; Solids; Waste management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics and the Environment, 1994. ISEE 1994., Proceedings., 1994 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1769-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISEE.1994.337309

Filename

337309