Host: Japan Society of Material Cycles and Waste Management
We forecasted the demand of dysprosium (Dy), a rare earth element, which being broadly used in automobiles, home appliances, HDD, etc, using ratio of dysprosium-carrying end-use products, weight ratio of dysprosium in end-use products, production of end-use products. Based on above, we evaluated the new methodology able to estimate quantitatively the influence of the change of strategies, for example, changes in recycling ratio or Dy ratio in end-use application. We validated the method by evaluating the relationship between the future scenario and the Dy-less strategy.
