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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Main Authors: John Ryter, Xinkai Fu, Karan Bhuwalka, Richard Roth, Elsa A. Olivetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23874-7