3.2.2. End-of-Life Product Recycling

We assume that the copper collecting sector recovers end-of-life products from consumers, dismantles, sorts and separates them, and provides secondary materials for secondary copper production, iron and steel and plastic sectors. Here, it is assumed that there is a collection point of end-of-life products in the city, requiring consumers to bring end-of-life products for collectors to gather them. The "recovery" of the end-of-life copper collecting sector is transported from these collecting points to the copper recycling smelters [26].

As recycling progresses, the value of production in the recycled copper production sector and the copper recovery sector will increase and the intermediate input and import value of the imported copper ore sector will decrease. The copper recovery sector is assumed to be an industry that requires labor. Wages for this labor were substituted using values from the similarly structured waste treatment sector [27].
