3.1.2. Copper Collection

The end-of-life copper collection sector was added to the extended I-O table. This sector collects end-of-life copper products such as electronic home appliances or metal containing products, disassembles and sorts them and produces materials to be recycled by copper smelters, the ferrous sector and plastic sector. Note that the I-O table only allows a single output from a single sector, so, it is assumed that this sector produces raw materials only for the secondary copper sector. The input structure of this sector is approximated using life cycle assessment (LCA) data from a previous study [26].
