From extraction to end-uses and waste management: Modeling economy-wide material cycles and stock dynamics around the world.

ABSTRACT: Material stocks of infrastructure, buildings, and machinery are the biophysical basis of production and consumption. They are a crucial lever for resource efficiency and a sustainable circular economy. While material stock research has proliferated over the last years, most studies investigated specific materials or end-uses, usually not embedded into an economy-wide perspective. Herein, we present a novel version of the economy-wide, dynamic, inflow-driven model of material inputs, stocks, and outputs (MISO2), and present a global, country-level application. Currently, MISO2 covers 14 supply chain processes from raw material extraction to processing, trade, recycling, and waste management, as well as 13 end-uses of stocks. The derived database covers 23 raw materials and 20 stock-b

SUBMITTER: Wiedenhofer D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11667652 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature