Material efficiency: A white paper

By Julian M. Allwood, M. Ashby, Timothy G. Gutowski, Ernst Worrell. 2011

867 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Environmental Engineering, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/697c67cbb34e99300b72f188de98ce5711320a24

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Targets for a circular economy (2020, background): “However, Rethink has a wider connotation, because it includes the re-elaboration/reconceptualisation of ideas, dynamics, processes, concepts, uses, and post uses of a product (e.g. Clift and Allwood, 2011; Andrews, 2015; Kristensen et al., 2016; Linder, 2017).”
Material Flow Accounting: Measuring Global Material Use for Sustainable Development (2017, background): “(123) emphasize that large opportunities for reducing material demand through material efficiency lie particularly in longer-lasting products, modularization and remanufacturing, component reuse, and designing products with less material requirements.”
Eco‐Efficiency Analysis of a Lithium‐Ion Battery Waste Hierarchy Inspired by Circular Economy (2017, background): “…future regulatory mechanisms that integrate the proposed waste management hierarchy with a life cycle approach, considering that product design and manufacturing are also integral stages in planning a circular system (EMF 2013; Allwood et al. 2011, 2012; Gregson et al. 2015; Bakker et al. 2014).”
Low carbon lifestyles: A framework to structure consumption strategies and options to reduce carbon footprints (2016, background): “Current efforts in climate mitigation mainly focus on enhancing energy ef ﬁ ciency and carbon intensity (Allwood et al., 2011).”
A Global Assessment of Manufacturing: Economic Development, Energy Use, Carbon Emissions, and the Potential for Energy Efficiency and Materials Recycling (2013, background): “A white paper on this topic (99) has led to a book on material efficiency for steel and aluminum (66) and a focused Royal Society meeting and special issue on the topic (100), spanning all aspects from economics, sociology, and policy to technology; however, as yet, the strategy has received little ”
Technologies and policies to decarbonize global industry: Review and assessment of mitigation drivers through 2070 (2020, background): “However, construction has notable environmental impacts: over 20% of the world’s energy and process-related GHG emissions are from the production of materials, primarily structural materials [280], such as steel and concrete.”
Integrating Backcasting and Eco‐Design for the Circular Economy: The BECE Framework (2017, background): “Accordingly, a diverse set of DfX tools and metrics exist to help designers develop sustainable products (e.g., Rose 2000; Knight and Jenkins 2009; Ramani et al. 2010; Allwood et al. 2011; Sanyé-Mengual et al. 2014).”
Factors Influencing Construction Waste Generation in Building Construction: Thailand’s Perspective (2019, background): “United Kingdom, North America, Europe, and various parts of Asia accepted the 3R Principle, which is to reduce, reuse, and re-process waste [11].”
The future of construction materials research and the seventh UN Millennium Development Goal: A few insights (2013, background): “The most important environmental threat associated to its production is not so much the depletion of nonrenewable raw materials [4], but instead, the environmental impacts caused by its extraction, namely extensive deforestation and top-soil loss.”