According to a member of the International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management set up by UNEP, Thomas Graedel, stated that if people will not start recycling, specialty metals like aluminum will soon be scarce. Aluminum is being used by the electronics industry
Thomas Graedel, a professor of industrial ecology at Yale University is quoted saying:
“Currently we think that recycling rates for indium are below one percent. We think that’s the case for almost all the specialty metals.”
