Sustainable Metals Management Securing Our Future - Steps Towards a Closed Loop Economy /
Metals have been essential to human civilisation for many thousands of years. With a broad range of applications they have found their way into virtually every aspect of our daily lives. Their durable and recyclable properties should make them ideal materials for a sustainable economy. But can metal...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2006. |
| Series: | Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4539-5 |
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Table of Contents:
- Sustainability and Metals
- Outlines of a Sustainable Metals Industry
- Metallic Raw Materials — Constituents of Our Economy
- Economy, Thermodynamics, and Sustainability
- Aluminium
- Prospects for a Sustainable Aluminum Industry
- Towards a Sustainable Copper Industry?
- An Application of Exergy Accounting to Five Basic Metal Industries
- Entropy as a Measure for Resource Consumption — Application to Primary and Secondary Copper Production
- Dematerialization of the Metals Turnover
- Sustainability Strategies in Field Trial
- Metals Materials Flows
- Limits of Metal Recycling
- Secondary Materials in Steel Production and Recycling
- Optimisation Possibilities of Copper Smelting and -Processing
- The Hamburger Aluminium-Werk GMBH’s Contribution to a Sustainable Closed Loop Aluminium System
- Sustainable Use of Copper
- Ecological, Social, Toxicological, and Cultural Effects
- Heavy Metals in the Netherlands
- Toxic Effects of Metals and Metal Compounds
- Metallurgical Plants and Chemicals Industry as Challenges to Environmental Protection in the 19th Century
- Copper Mining and Metallurgy in Prehistoric and the More Recent Past
- Social and Ecological Consequences of the Bauxite-Energy-Aluminium Product Line
- The Ok Tedi Pages
- Product Design and Use
- Metals and Plastics - Competition or Synergy?
- Sustainability-Optimised Material Selection and Product Design at Audi
- Recycling of Electronic Waste Material
- Sustainable Development of Microelectronics Industry
- The Role of Metals for Designing Products and Solutions in the Context of a Sustainable Society.