SYMPOSIA PAPER Published: 01 January 1975
STP33887S

Materials Recovery and Utilization

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Some raw materials are in scarce supply, and the cost of others have risen sharply. This has started the United States into a transition period, from being a “disposable” society into an era of widespread recovery, reclamation, and reuse of materials. The working of free market forces, rather than arbitrarily imposed incentive/disincentive plans, should determine how long the transition takes. It could be speeded, however, if several present disincentives to materials recovery and reuse were removed.

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Estes, EM
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, Mich.
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Developed by Committee: D34
Pages: 20–27
DOI: 10.1520/STP33887S
ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-4666-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-0558-4