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Acceptance of Mobile Phone Return Programmes for Increased Resource Efficiency by Young People—Experiences from a German Research Project

The need for recycling obsolete mobile phones has significantly increased with their rapidly growing worldwide production and distribution. Return and recycling rates are quite low; people tend to keep old, unused phones at home instead of returning them for recycling or further use because of a lac...

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Published in:Resources (Basel) 2013-09, Vol.2 (3), p.385-405
Main Authors: Welfens, Maria, Nordmann, Julia, Seibt, Alexandra, Schmitt, Martina
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