Sustainable Metals Management : Securing Our Future - Steps Towards a Closed Loop Economy (Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science)

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Outlines of a Sustainable Metals Industry....Pages 3-39
Metallic Raw Materials — Constituents of Our Economy....Pages 41-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Aluminium....Pages 71-96
Prospects for a Sustainable Aluminum Industry....Pages 97-111
Towards a Sustainable Copper Industry?....Pages 113-139
An Application of Exergy Accounting to Five Basic Metal Industries....Pages 141-194
Entropy as a Measure for Resource Consumption — Application to Primary and Secondary Copper Production....Pages 195-235
Dematerialization of the Metals Turnover....Pages 237-247
Sustainability Strategies in Field Trial....Pages 249-291
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
Limits of Metal Recycling....Pages 295-312
Secondary Materials in Steel Production and Recycling....Pages 313-334
Optimisation Possibilities of Copper Smelting and -Processing....Pages 335-346
The Hamburger Aluminium-Werk GMBH’s Contribution to a Sustainable Closed Loop Aluminium System....Pages 347-354
Sustainable Use of Copper....Pages 355-373
Front Matter....Pages 375-375
Heavy Metals in the Netherlands....Pages 377-392
Toxic Effects of Metals and Metal Compounds....Pages 393-402
Metallurgical Plants and Chemicals Industry as Challenges to Environmental Protection in the 19 th Century....Pages 403-416
Copper Mining and Metallurgy in Prehistoric and the More Recent Past....Pages 417-448
Social and Ecological Consequences of the Bauxite-Energy-Aluminium Product Line....Pages 449-482
The Ok Tedi Pages....Pages 483-515
Front Matter....Pages 517-517
Metals and Plastics - Competition or Synergy?....Pages 519-534
Sustainability-Optimised Material Selection and Product Design at Audi....Pages 535-562
Recycling of Electronic Waste Material....Pages 563-576
Sustainable Development of Microelectronics Industry....Pages 577-592
The Role of Metals for Designing Products and Solutions in the Context of a Sustainable Society....Pages 593-607