Emission impacts of China’s solid waste import ban and COVID-19 in the copper supply chain
Advanced copper supply chain modeling shows China’s new waste trade policy may increase pollution, while limiting other low-value imports reverses this trend. Here the authors show that recycling is vulnerable to supply chain shocks, requiring investment during recoveries to promote a circular econo...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-06-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23874-7 |