New Development of Resource Recycling / Waste Disposal Business by Information Technology

Curbside Recycling: Waste Resource or Waste of Resources?

In this paper, we address the often contentious debate over state and local recycling policy by carefully estimating the social net benefit of curbside recycling. Benefits are estimated using household survey data from over 4,000 households across 40 western U.S. cities. We calibrate household willingness-to-pay for hypothetical bias using an innovative experimental design that contrasts stated...

Leveraging Human Resource Information Systems: Alignment of Business with Technology

Technology alignment helps organizations to do things better by supporting or shaping competitive strategies. Above all, it must have an impact on organizational performance. Technology has been instrumental in transforming the field of Human Resources in delivery, support and management of HR processes in an effective and efficient way. As companies begin to compete in the challenging business...

Composite Recycling and Disposal

Aeronautic/aerospace applications, both military and commercial, are accounting for a large share of the growing composite market in value. However, their share of the market in volume is much smaller. Costs are high when large amounts of carbon fiber reinforcements are used. These high performance composite materials have six properties that give them an edge over traditional materials: longer...

Plastics Recycling – Technology and Business in Japan

Disposal of Radioactive Waste

Perhaps the most important single problem arising from the increasing use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes is how to dispose of the growing amounts of radioactive waste. Many of its complex aspects were discussed at the scientific conference on the disposal of radioactive waste held by IAEA in Monaco from 16 to 21 November 1959. The conference was organized jointly with UNESCO, with the c...