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Synopsis: How does scrap copper find its way back to industry for re-use as a manufacturing material? Shows the stages of the recycling loop and the economic motivation that makes the system work. Shows a totter collecting household scrap, the buying, grading and sorting of scrap by dealers, the processing of the materials at a refinery, and the buying and selling of pure copper on the London Metal Exchange.
Series: Living with Technology: A Foundation Course, Course T102
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.
Year of production: 1988
Availability: OUT OF DISTRIBUTION
Subjects: Environmental science; Technology
Keywords: copper; recycling of waste; scrap metal

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