ISWA Publication Award 2014 given to "Handbook of Recycling: State-of-the-art for Practitioners, Analysts and Scientists," in which Gara Villalba has contributed with the chapter "Recycling Rare Metals"

¿Handbook of Recycling: State-of-the-art for Practitioners, Analysts and Scientists¿, by Ernst Worrell and Markus Reuter (Eds.), Elsevier Science Publishing, 2014 ¿This is an excellent handbook, so full with data, literature and practical suggestions for recycling of different materials ¿ its detail and coverage make it useful for everyone in the waste management world. It is ISWA¿s honour to receive such publications as candidates. Magnificent technical and scientific work.¿ ¿Implementing 3R is a key to many countries. This publication addresses the complete life cycle of recycling and hence very useful for practitioners around the world. It¿s one of the best collection of information I have come across related to recycling technologies. -------------------------------------------------------------------- AYRES Robert U., VILLALBA MENDEZ Gara, TALENS PEIRO Laura Recycling Rare Metals in Handbook of Recycling: State-of-the-art for Practitioners, Analysts, and Scientists Elsevier (2014) 27-38 The industrial system now utilizes many more elements, especially rare metals, than was the case even a half century ago. Most are not mined for themselves but are obtained as by-products or ¿hitchhikers¿ of the more familiar industrial metals, such as iron, aluminum, copper, nickel, and zinc. This imposes a limit on the production of by-product metals. But in some cases, demand may increase much faster than new supply. This suggests a need for recycling. But the uses of these metals are often in products, such as cell phones, that are mass-produced but where the amount in each individual product is very small. Some uses are also inherently dissipative. This makes recycling very difficult in principle. It constitutes a serious challenge for the future economy. Prices will rise.