<p>Advancing the science of recycling, recovery and reuse of industrial materials and byproducts represents a multifaceted challenge for researchers. Resource efficiency has become a major topic on the political agenda throughout the world and has served to prioritize materials recycling as part of effective resource management strategies within industry and academia alike. </p> <p>This is reflected in increasing interest in resource efficiency, as commodity prices have steadily increased and geo-political issues around access to strategic resources arise again. Moreover, increased environmental pressure, including climate change, will increase interest in recycling as part of the environmental and waste management toolbox.</p> <p>Edited by Dr Ernst Worrell of Utrecht Univeristy, Editor-in-Chief of <i>Resources, Conservation and Recycling</i> and composed of strictly edited, multidisciplinary expert articles, this work directly addresses this research challenge, fostering comprehension not only of currently deployed industrial practice from a professional / user perspective, but within context of the underpinning resource conservation, waste reduction and sustainable development. </p><ul><li> <p>Portrays recent and emerging technologies in metal recycling, by-product utilization and management of post-consumer waste</p></li><li> <p>Uses life cycle analysis to show how to reclaim valuable resources from mineral and metallurgical wastes </p></li> <p><li>Uses examples from current professional and industrial practice, with policy implications and economics, to present a real-world portrait useful to engineers and professionals as well as academics</li></ul>