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This work is the second product of a collaboration between the World Resources Institute and research partners in Europe and Japan. Its task is to document the materials that flow through industrial economies, and to develop sets of national physical accounts that can be used alongside national monetary accounts. In addition, it develops indicators of material flows that complement economic indicators like Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In 1997, the first report, "Resource Flows: The Material Basis of Industrial Economies", documented material inputs to industrial economies, and showed that the Total Material Requirement of major OECD countries (Germany, Japan, The Netherlands and the USA) is between 45 and 80 metric tons per capita annually. This report completes the material cycle. It documents the relatively modest quantities of materials that are recycled or added each year to stock in use (largely in the form of infrastructure and durable goods), and the materials that are quickly returned to the environment as pollution or waste, with potential for environmental harm. The report shows that, in the five countries studied, between one half and three quarters of resource inputs to the economy are returned to the environment as wastes within a year. It further shows that, despite waste reduction measures and significant improvements in the efficiency of material use, the overall quantities of wastes flowing into the environment each year have continued to grow. Much greater improvements in energy and materials efficiency will be required if modern industrial economies are to achieve a real reduction in their lev


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  • ISBN-13: 9781569734391
  • Publisher: World Resources Institute
  • Publisher Imprint: World Resources Institute
  • Height: 234 mm
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1569734399
  • Publisher Date: 31 Dec 2000
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Sub Title: Material Outflows from Industrial Economies


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