The 2008 Global Symposium on Recycling, Waste Treatment and Clean Technology (REWAS 2008) is the third in a series of international conferences to address the continuing globalization of environment protection through progress in recycling technology, re-engineering of the production system, and clean technologies. The conference incorporates the Fifth International Symposium on Recycling of Metals and Engineered Materials and R'08 - the World Congress on the Recovery of Materials and Energy for Resource Efficiency. Technical topics covered in the conference proceedings include:

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The main themes of the Processing Materials for Properties conference are presented in this volume: prominent materials processing technologies, materials properties and applications, and process-structure-property pathway. Special emphasis is placed on electronics, energy and the environment, including processing aspects of materials research, development and production; materials modeling; computation; characterization; and properties.

Topics include:

• Materials processing technology: high temperature processing, thin film deposition, casting, powder processing, aqueous and...