Research Sustainable cycles and management of plastics: A brief review of RCR publications in 2019 and early 2020 Plastics have been playing a vital role in the industrialized economy, resulting in the growing amount of plastic waste and the surging attentions to plastics sustainability challenge.
Research Mapping provincial steel stocks and flows in China: 1978–2050 China’s unprecedented industrialization and urbanization have boosted tremendous steel use nationwide, making it the global largest steel producer and consumer.
Research Refining the understanding of China’s tungsten dominance with dynamic material cycle analysis Tungsten is deemed a critical raw material by many nations, given its irreplaceable use in industrial and military applications.
Research Identifying the socioeconomic drivers of solid waste recycling in China for the period 2005–2017 Solid waste recycling is crucial for easing China's resource constraints and for promoting the country's sustainable economic development.
Research Spatial distribution of copper in-use stocks and flows in China: 1978–2016 Given copper mineral is becoming rarer and harder to obtain, China needs to find alternative sources to meet its future demand.
Research Characteristics of the global copper raw materials and scrap trade systems and the policy impacts of China’s import ban Copper raw materials (CRM) and copper waste and scrap (CWS) are the two main sources of copper manufactured products.
Research Toward sustainable climate change adaptation Industrial ecology (IE) has made great contributions to climate change mitigation research, in terms of its systems thinking and solid methodologies such as life cycle assessment, material flow analysis, and environmentally extended input–output analysis.
Research A review of methods and data to determine raw material criticality The assessment of the criticality of raw materials allows the identification of the likelihood of a supply disruption of a material and the vulnerability of a system (e.g. a national economy, technology, or company) to this disruption.
Research Material-energy-water nexus: Modelling the long term implications of aluminium demand and supply on global climate change up to 2050 Aluminium is a widely used metal and one of the most energy intensive industries, and therefore it has been included in most energy models and scenarios.
Research Structure of the global plastic waste trade network and the impact of China’s import Ban Millions of tonnes (teragrams) of plastic waste are traded around the world every year, which plays an important role in partially substituting virgin plastics as a source of raw materials in plastic product manufacturing.
