Sustainable Materials: With Both Eyes Open

One of Bill Gates top six books for 2015,  Julian Allwood,  Jonathan Cullen and colleagues presents an optimistic, entertaining and richly informed evaluation of the sustainable management of our growing demand for materials. Read it free online.

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Chapter 1 - Material Wealth and Health

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chapter_1.pdf (2.94 MB)


Chapter 2 - Scale, Uncertainty and Estimation

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chapter_2.pdf (6.89 MB)


Chapter 3 - Our Uses of Steel and Aluminium

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chapter_3.pdf (7.64 MB)


Chapter 4 - Metal Journeys

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chapter_4.pdf (6.36 MB)


Chapter 5 - Energy and Emissions

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chapter_5.pdf (4.69 MB)


Chapter 6 - Where Does The Money Go?

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chapter_6.pdf (4.89 MB)

Chapter 7 - Energy Efficiency

chapter_7.pdf (5.27 MB)


Chapter 8 - Opportunities For Capturing Heat

chapter_8.pdf (7.02 MB)


Chapter 9 - Novel Process Routes

chapter_9.pdf (4.09 MB)

Chapter 10 - Carbon Sequestration

chapter_10_0.pdf (3.99 MB)


Chapter 11 - Future energy use and emissions

chapter_11.pdf (2.65 MB)


 

 

Chapter 12 - Using less metal by design

chapter_12_0.pdf (8.24 MB)


Chapter 13 - Reducing yield losses

chapter_13.pdf (5.47 MB)


Chapter 14 - Diverting manufacturing scrap

chapter_14.pdf (3.09 MB)


Chapter 15 - Re-using metal components

chapter_15.pdf (6.72 MB)


Chapter 16 - Longer life products

chapter_16_0.pdf (8.61 MB)


Chapter 17 - Reducing final demand

chapter_17.pdf (3.44 MB)


Chapter 18 - Options for change

chapter_18.pdf (4.78 MB)


Chapter 19 - Future energy use and emissions

chapter_19.pdf (2.54 MB)

Chapter 20 - Cement

chapter_20.pdf (5.51 MB)


Chapter 21 - Plastic

chapter_21.pdf (3.93 MB)


Chapter 22 - Paper

chapter_22.pdf (4.83 MB)

Chapter 23 - Business activity evaluation

chapter_23.pdf (3.45 MB)


Chapter 24 - The influence of policy

chapter_24.pdf (3.12 MB)


Chapter 25 - The action of individuals

chapter_25.pdf (2.95 MB)


References

references.pdf (238.4 KB)