About Recycling

Aims

Recycling (ISSN 2072-4292) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles, critical reviews, research notes, and short communications in the area of waste reutilization and resource recycling. It provides an international online forum for studies related to recycling, resource recovery and waste utilisation across many industries including glass, paper, metal, plastic, textiles, and electronics.

Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish experimental and theoretical research relating to innovation processes, tools and methodologies relating to resource recycling. Articles relating to the evaluation of the recycling process as well as inter-connected issues like socio-cultural, political, economic, and legal considerations related to recycling are also invited.

Subject Areas

• Innovation processes, tools and methodologies for resource recycling across industry including (but not limited to):
  • Paper recycling
  • Metal recycling
  • Glass recycling
  • Textiles recycling
  • Plastics recycling
  • Plant debris recycling
  • Putrescibles recycling
  • Wood recycling
  • Ceramics recycling
  • Soil recycling
  • Chemicals recycling
  • E-waste recycling
• Waste processing technologies
• Circular economy
• Zero waste programs
• Recycling policies
• The economics of recycling
• Environmental and social impact of recycling
• Product (eco) design and recycling

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

Recycling is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications. MDPI works with Publons to provide reviewers with credit for their work.

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