Recycling is gaining increasing attention world wide. The importance of recycling is recognized by most of the industrially developed countries, with different emphasis on the issues concerning legislation, standardization, basic research, and industrial implementation. It has been recognized that disassembly of used products is needed in order to make recycling economically viable in the current state of the art of reprocessing technology. This paper reviews the research concerning the recycling of end-of-life products and the development of disassembly model.