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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 January 2022.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electronic waste; hazardous waste; resource recycle; pollution control; sustainability
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Humans need resources to meet the improved requirements for better living conditions. Therefore, huge amounts of mining have been removed from mountains to the cities, especially after the second worldwide industrialization. It is foreseeable that, in the future, humans could find all the resources they need in the city alone, in other words, cities could be self-sustainable if urban mining was able to fully support. Although theories behind the mining technologies developed for field mining could be used in urban mining, they have to be further developed to suit this novel situation.
This Special Issue will review the sustainable technologies of urban mining during the past few decades, introduce the most advanced ongoing research worldwide, discuss and hopefully provide possible directions for sustainable technologies of urban mining.
Prof. Dr. Mengjun Chen
Dr. Jianchen Shu
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- urban mining
- sustainable technologies