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Materials Count: The Case for Material Flows Analysis (2004)

Chapter: Appendix B: Information Provided to the Committee

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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Information Provided to the Committee." National Research Council. 2004. Materials Count: The Case for Material Flows Analysis. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10705.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Information Provided to the Committee." National Research Council. 2004. Materials Count: The Case for Material Flows Analysis. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10705.
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Appendix B Information Provided to the Committee SPEAKERS AT COMMITTEE MEETINGS Frederick Allen, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C. Patrick Atkins, Alcoa, New York, New York John Carberry, DuPont, Wilmington, Delaware Kenneth Friedman, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C. William Gager, The Remanufacturing Institute, Chantilly, Virginia Chris Hendrickson, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Kathleen Johnson, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia Gregory Mella, SmithGroup/LEEDTM, Washington, D.C. Drew Meyer, Vulcan Materials, Birmingham, Alabama Yuichi Moriguchi, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tokyo, Japan Sumiye Okubo, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Washington, D.C. Andrew Opperman, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Trenton, New Jersey Donald Rogich, (consultant), World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C. Matthias Ruth, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland Anton Steurer, Eurostat, Luxembourg Leonard Surges, Noranda, Ontario, Canada Tom Tyler, Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Washington, D.C. Herman Zimmerman, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia 115

116 MATEMALS COST this arena will be enhanced by ongoing research, which will run concurrently with the development of material flows accounts. The strategy for successful implementation of material flows accounts is important to ensure success in using them. By employing a partnership approach through an independent organization, the accounts and their uses would be enhanced, and through this enhancement, linkages with other databases on the economy, the environment, and social status could lead to the type of holistic public policy making necessary for a progressively more complex society. PRE-PUBLICATION VERSION, SUBJECT TO EDITORIAL CHANGES

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The rising population and industrial growth place increasing strains on a variety of material and energy resources. Understanding how to make the most economically and environmentally efficient use of materials will require an understanding of the flow of materials from the time a material is extracted through processing, manufacturing, use, and its ultimate destination as a waste or reusable resource. Materials Count examines the usefulness of creating and maintaining material flow accounts for developing sound public policy, evaluates the technical basis for material flows analysis, assesses the current state of material flows information, and discusses who should have institutional responsibility for collecting, maintaining, and providing access to additional data for material flow accounts.

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