Resource Conservation, Recovery, and Solid Waste Disposal, Prepared by the Environmental Policy Division of the Congressional Research Service for ..., 93-1, November 19731973 - 311 páginas |
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... secondary materials . This question is taken up next . Recycling should not be considered an end in itself , but some pattern of greater recycling is presumably desirable because it leads to " better " paths of material flow through the ...
... secondary materials . This question is taken up next . Recycling should not be considered an end in itself , but some pattern of greater recycling is presumably desirable because it leads to " better " paths of material flow through the ...
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... SECONDARY MATERIALS 1 In many places in the economy secondary ( scrap ) materials com- pete directly against primary ( virgin ) materials . If a particular sec- ondary material were a perfect substitute for its primary counterpart ...
... SECONDARY MATERIALS 1 In many places in the economy secondary ( scrap ) materials com- pete directly against primary ( virgin ) materials . If a particular sec- ondary material were a perfect substitute for its primary counterpart ...
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... secondary prices higher than the primary counterpart . Substitution between secondary and primary material would continue until the prices were equalized . A 1 percent increase in the cost of primary material ( due , for example , to ...
... secondary prices higher than the primary counterpart . Substitution between secondary and primary material would continue until the prices were equalized . A 1 percent increase in the cost of primary material ( due , for example , to ...
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... secondary material supplied . If the percentage change in price from P to P ' happened to be 1 percent the elasticity of supply of secondary material would be illustrated in panel I. The elasticity of supply would be ( S2 - S1 ) / S1 ...
... secondary material supplied . If the percentage change in price from P to P ' happened to be 1 percent the elasticity of supply of secondary material would be illustrated in panel I. The elasticity of supply would be ( S2 - S1 ) / S1 ...
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... secondary competition . In contrast there are a large number of secondary producers , each one much smaller and less financially strong than the average primary competitor . Secondary dealers act like commodity traders , which in fact ...
... secondary competition . In contrast there are a large number of secondary producers , each one much smaller and less financially strong than the average primary competitor . Secondary dealers act like commodity traders , which in fact ...
Términos y frases comunes
aluminum Assumptions automobiles average Avg Avg bauxite cars chromium coal Commission on Materials Committee commodities Comstock Lode conservation consumer copper cost depletion criterion depletion allowance deposits depreciation disposal costs economic effect efficiency energy environment estimated extraction factors Federal figure flow fluorspar forecasts foreign fuel future geologic geologic-analogy method global growth impact imports incentives income increase industrial demand iron limited manganese manufacturing metals million mineral resources mining municipal waste national materials policy natural gas nickel nonrenewable resources number of units oil and gas percent petroleum pollution potential Preston Cloud price subsidy primary material problem processing product durability projected recycling repair costs reserves Resource Recovery Resource Recovery Act rule of capture salvage value secondary materials sector short tons solid waste sources steel substitute supply surviving to age synthetic crude tion tires tons transportation virgin material warranty Weibull distribution
Pasajes populares
Página 203 - This radicalization was first clearly evidenced at the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, held 'at Stockholm in 1972.
Página 204 - By far the most important action of this session was the adoption of a joint resolution ratifying the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States declaring that the right of citizens...
Página 29 - Extensive hearings followed before the House Committee on Ways and Means, and the Senate Committee on Finance.
Página 205 - The profound question is : Does this mean we will be 50 percent richer in a real sense, 50 percent better off, 50 percent happier? Or does it mean that in the year 1980 the President standing in this place will look back on a decade in which 70 percent of our people lived in metropolitan areas choked by traffic, suffocated by smog, poisoned by water, deafened by noise, and terrorized by crime?
Página 12 - USC 3252(4)), except that for purposes of this paragraph, material will not qualify as solid waste unless, on the date of issue of the obligations issued to provide the facility to dispose of such waste material, it is property which is useless, unused, unwanted, or discarded solid material, which has no market or other value at the place where it is located.
Página 205 - In the next 10 years we shall increase our wealth by 50 percent. The profound question is — does this mean we will be 50 percent richer in a real sense, 50 percent better off, 50 percent happier?
Página 2 - ... efforts to enlarge their markets; (2) that improved wellbeing of society is adequately measured by aggregate volume of the production of goods, increased per capita use of goods, and aggregate consumption of materials and energy; and (3) that technological development should and will continue to contribute to and accelerate the increased throughput of materials per person as it has in the past.
Página 187 - Historical data on other materials are not readily available in aggregate form, but declining recovery is generally the rule. It is reasonable to assume that a secondary material, one that has already been processed, should be a more attractive raw material to industry than a virgin material that must be extracted or harvested and processed. The secondary material is already purified and concentrated; scrap steel, for instance, is nearly 100 percent steel while the iron ore from which it is made...
Página 187 - The use of recycled materials appears to result in a reduction in atmospheric emissions, waste generated, and energy consumption when compared with virgin materials utilization...
Página 205 - Or, does it mean that in the year 1980 the President standing in this place will look back on a decade in which seventy percent of our people lived in metropolitan areas choked by traffic, suffocated by smog, poisoned by water, deafened by noise and terrorized by crime?