This study involves a material flow analysis (MFA) of single-use plastics (SUPs) and packaging materials in the Republic of Korea, focusing on their short lifespans and significant contributions to plastic waste. Based on the MFA results, recommended...
Spatial information can be integrated into almost all fields of industrial ecology. Many researchers have shown that spatial proximity affects a variety of behaviors and interactions, and thus matters for materials stocks and flows analysis. However,...
Agriculture on Miyakojima Island is highly dependent on imported fertilizer and feed. To reduce this dependence, the present research examines the biomass resources on the island by conducting a material flow analysis of stockbreeding and other relat...
Construction and demolition waste (C&D waste) are widely recognized as the main form municipal solid waste, and its recycling and reuse are an important issue in sustainable city development. Material flow analysis (MFA) can quantify materials fl...
Construction and demolition waste (CDW) is a major urban material flow whose long-term generation depends on the age structure of the building stock. This study develops an inflow-driven, cohort-based dynamic material flow analysis (dMFA) for Bangkok...
It is challenging to quantify the production of wood-based biomass, to define the type and where it comes from, how it is used, and the amount that remains available. This information is crucial for the implementation of national and transnational re...
Circular economy is currently characterized by various definitions, measurement approaches, and critical analyses thereof coexisting alongside each other. Whether the concept eventually prevails or collapses will depend to some extent on our success...
Tin is an indispensable metal for contemporary society owing to its extensive application. China is a major tin manufacturer and consumer worldwide. Nonetheless, the crucial characteristics of its tin metabolism remain limited. Therefore, a dynamic m...
Wood and wood-based products are increasingly recognized for their renewability and carbon storage capacity, supporting sustainable development and circular economy goals in the EU. This paper provides a comprehensive review of 42 material flow analy...
The sustainable resource management of end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) towards a circular economy has become an issue of concern around the world. An understanding of recycling and the quantitative flow of ELVs is important because of their potential for...
Marine-related activities contribute significantly to plastic pollution in oceans worldwide, particularly in regions located along international maritime routes such as Türkiye. The Dardanelles serves as a major maritime gateway connecting the A...
Recently, the material flow analysis (MFA) of waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) has attracted much interest from researchers worldwide because of its function as a decision-making tool for moving towards a circular economy and sus...
Background: this research presents an integrated approach to enhancing the sustainability of plastic bag supply chains in Indonesia by addressing critical issues related to ineffective post-consumer waste management and low recycling rates. The objec...
The 27,000 km of railway track in France represents approximately 100 million tonnes of ballast. This ballast requires maintenance approximately every 7 years, screening and partial renewal every 20 years, and complete replacement every 40 years. Des...
This study aimed at a quantitative analysis of the material flows associated with End of Life (EoL) lithium-ion batteries’ (LIBs) materials in Europe. The European electric vehicles fleet in 2020 was taken as a case study, assuming a 10-year li...
Material Flow Analysis (MFA) is a key tool in the circular bioeconomy, providing insight into the flow of materials within a system. Its use in the wood-based value chain is increasingly recognized and provides valuable information for policy making....
Growth in cattle population is associated with increased manure generation whose current management in low-income countries is associated with health and environmental problems as well as low utilization rates. This trend can be reversed by promoting...
The increasing adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) has highlighted the need for sustainable lithium-ion battery (LIB) management. This study presents a material flow analysis (MFA) of EV LIBs in the Republic of Korea (RoK), using both a mass-based MF...
Photovoltaic (PV) deployment in China has accumulated silver in long-lived crystalline silicon modules, yet the timing and scale of its end-of-life (EOL) release remain uncertain. This study develops a cohort-based dynamic material flow analysis (MFA...
This article uses the rice price crisis of 2007–2008 to show how material flow analysis (MFA) can be combined with resilience research. After presentation of fundamental information and methods, resilience-related concepts are illustrated using graph...
The Landes de Gascogne forest, located in southwestern France, spans nearly 10,000 km2 and consists largely of maritime pine (Pinus pinaster). This forest in unique to Europe because it is almost entirely created and managed by man for specific indus...
The relationship between economic growth and environmental impact has become a recurrent subject of research in recent years. Currently, results that indicate that the accumulation of economic growth leads to a reduction in environmental impact coexi...
Industrial symbiosis (IS) involves transferring waste materials and/or energy flows between stakeholders to enhance resource efficiency and reduce environmental impacts. The success of these transactions depends on supply–demand matching, techn...
Eggs represent one of the most consumed animal products worldwide. In Europe, over 366 million laying hens and 6.1 Mt of derived eggs have been estimated in 2020, and Italy represents the fourth largest producer (41 million hens and 0.79 Mt of eggs)....
Construction and demolition waste is one of the most voluminous yet poorly managed waste streams in developing cities, and Fez, Morocco, is no exception. With over 1.2 million inhabitants and an expanding construction sector, the city produces large...
Two phase flow and horizontal well completion pose additional challenges for rate-transient analysis (RTA) techniques in under-saturated coal seam gas (CSG) reservoirs. To better obtain reservoir parameters, a practical workflow for the two phase RTA...
Many decommissioned wind turbines (WTs) present significant recycling management challenges. Improper disposal wastes resources and generates additional carbon emissions, which contradicts the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This study construc...
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Evidence of China’s food loss and waste (FLW) and its increasing impacts on food security and environmental sustainability is urgently needed to guide policy intervention and avoid unnecessary damage to human health and the environment. This pa...
The unprecedented technological development and economic growth over the past two decades has resulted in streams of rapidly growing electronic waste (e-waste) around the world. As the potential source of secondary raw materials including precious an...
Material extrusion (ME), an extrusion-based rapid prototyping technique, has been extensively studied to manufacture final functional products, whose forming quality is significantly influenced by the melt flow behavior (MFB) inside the extrusion liq...
Indonesia, as a major global textile exporter, faces substantial sustainability challenges due to its linear production model, which generates massive volumes of post-industrial polyester waste (PIPW). However, reliable data and recycling pathways re...
The circular economy (CE) model has become highly relevant in recent years, with the electronics industry being one of the sectors that has considered its application. Despite only a limited amount of literature being available on waste electric and...
Proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzers and fuel cells could substantially increase demand for iridium (Ir) and platinum (Pt), two platinum-group metals (PGMs) with concentrated primary supply chains. This study evaluates secondary Ir and Pt sup...
Lead-acid batteries (LABs), a widely used energy storage equipment in cars and electric vehicles, are becoming serious problems due to their high environmental impact. In this study, an integrated method, combining material flow analysis with life cy...
This study employs a material flow analysis (MFA) to examine the usage patterns of domestic and imported wood resources in South Korea, analyzing the significant differences in utilization, and their impacts on carbon storage. We found a contrast bet...
For the general quantitative evaluation of the flow characteristics of a material, various factors that affect the flow should be examined. Notably, cement paste shows multi-dimensional flow characteristics owing to not only its inherent features suc...
The operation of seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination facilities has become challenged by the increasing frequency and severity of harmful algal blooms (HABs). The efficiency of algal toxins removal during SWRO and pretreatment processes has...
Fundamental changes in the societal use of biophysical resources are required for a sustainability transformation. Current socioeconomic metabolism research traces flows of energy, materials or substances to capture resource use: input of raw materia...
This paper introduces a novel method for estimating material flows, with a focus on tracing phosphate flows from mining countries to those using phosphate in agricultural production. Our approach integrates data on phosphate rock extraction, fertiliz...
The blast furnace iron making process (BFIMP) is the key of the integrated steel enterprise for energy saving due to its largest energy consumption proportion. In this paper, an all-factors analysis approach on energy consumption was proposed in BFIM...
Construction projects generate substantial material waste and embodied carbon losses, yet no integrating framework currently transforms routine project documentation into stage-specific decision signals during building delivery. This paper proposes C...
This paper reviews around 41 articles providing the trends, characteristics, research gaps and challenges of these studies that may help e-waste management-related academics and practitioners with an overview of the need for such tool to be applied....
Tourism destinations consume vast quantities of energy, water, food, and materials, yet these resource flows remain largely invisible in destination planning practice. The aim of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework that reconceptualises t...
Urbanization causes massive flows of construction materials and waste, which generates environmental impacts and land-use conflicts. Circular economy strategies at a local scale and in coordination with urban planning could respond to those issues. I...
In this study, two analysis strategies were used to investigate the melt-ablation process of the copper specimen plate in the scaled ducted launcher. The reliability of the simulation results of the two analysis strategies was confirmed by comparing...
Iron is an important metal material that supports the development of society and national economies. Due to the uneven distribution of resources, there is frequent trade around the world. Therefore, mastering the global flow path and trade pattern pr...
The transition of our current economic system towards a bioeconomy that is based on renewable materials and energy can be an important contribution but at the same time a threat to mitigate the challenges of the 21st century, such as global warming a...
Dynamic material stock–flow analysis is widely used to assess long-lived built-environment systems, but data scarcity makes its application challenging because stock, inflow, and outflow evidence often do not form a coherent accounting structur...
Reducing material flows and their associated environmental impacts substantially contributes to moving toward a more sustainable society. Both individual consumption behavior and governmental regulations play a crucial role in reaching sustainability...
Urbanization is a global trend: Since 2007 more than 50% of the world’s population have been living in urban areas, and rates of urbanization are continuing to rise everywhere. This growth in urbanization has led to an increased demand for natu...
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