Recovery of Waste Materials: Technological Research and Industrial Scale-Up
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials and Environment, Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering, "Sapienza" University of Roma, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Roma, Italy.
Materials (Basel, Switzerland)
|January 21, 2022
Abstract:
An increase in population, booming economy, rapid urbanization and the rise in living standards have exponentially accelerated waste production [...].
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