Recent Advances in Recycling of Copper‐Based Waste Materials: A Critical Review
cMat, Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2025.ABSTRACT Copper plays a crucial role in the civilization of our lives. This review examines the flow of copper from the mining of ores to the end‐of‐life product, with particular emphasis on the recovery and re‐functionalization of copper and copper‐containing wastes. Beginning with the analysis of the global copper market, reserves, supply, and demand,
Rui‐Ting Zhan +10 more
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Transparency in trading companies: should trading companies join the EITI, what are the issues and opportunities ? [PDF]
, 2017 This thesis explains the relationship between transparency and corruption in the trade and business universes, as well as analyses how it affects stakeholders closely linked to the problem.
Mireskandari, Alexander, Piller, Robert
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Constitutionalising secondary rules in global environmental regimes : non-compliance procedures and the enforcement of multilateral environmental agreements [PDF]
, 2011 Due to its remarkable success, the model of the Montreal Protocol's non-compliance procedure (NCP) has been adopted in other environmental regimes, whose primary norms differ considerably.
Cardesa-Salzmann, Antonio
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The Ukraine War and the Limits of Latin American Fence‐Sitting
Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 300-304, September 2024.Why have most Latin American countries – traditionally pro‐Atlantic and staunch defenders of non‐intervention – remained conspicuously neutral during the Ukraine War? We argue that in an increasingly bipolar context, fence‐sitting produces clear strategic gains through partner‐diversification and bargaining power. However, this strategy becomes riskier
Luis Schenoni +2 more
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Should oil trading companies possess their own tankers ? [PDF]
, 2016 The purpose of this report is to understand if it would make sense for oil trading companies to purchase and operate oil tankers. The report begins by defining the current concept of trading.
Haldemann, Ulysse, Piller, Robert
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Questionable proposals for legal aid reform in the UK mean that government’s promises of justice for all ring hollow [PDF]
, 2011 The controversial Legal Aid, Punishment and Sentencing of Offenders Bill has had a baptism of fire since it was leaked earlier this summer and recent moves by the UN and Amnesty International will do nothing to quell the flames. Avery Hancock writes that
Hancock, Avery
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Orwell, Hezbollah and Rusbridger: the limits on media freedom (guest blog) [PDF]
, 2010 This is a paper submitted as part of the Polis Summer School The limits on freedom of expression in journalism by Rebecca Hales A western European, when questioned on the subject of freedom of expression, might wave his or her hand in a vague easterly ...
Hales, Rebecca
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Have commodity trading houses become "too big to fail" ? [PDF]
, 2016 Commodity trading is very important on a global scale, because of the nature of its activity - moving raw material from a place where it is abundant to a place where it is needed.
Lopez, Anas, Piller, Robert
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‘It’s not me, it’s the corporation’: the value of corporate accountability in the global political economy [PDF]
, 2016 ‘Corporate accountability’ legitimises and thus reinforces the current system of surplus value extraction. Accountability struggles effectively to reduce corporate capitalism’s violence to the good corporate citizen’s occasional ‘wrongdoing’, which ...
Baars, G.
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La denuncia social en Internet : Wikileaks y la filtración de documentos secretos [PDF]
, 2010 1. Objetivos. Desde la creación de Wikileaks en diciembre de 2006, este portal de Internet se ha convertido en un espacio de denuncia social empleado por los ciudadanos de todo el mundo.
Romero Portillo, José +1 more
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