Others relate to the relatively new idea of ecoindustrial parksa combination of businesses that cooperate with each other and with the local community to efficiently share resources information, materials, water, energy, infrastructure, and natural habitat, leading to economic gains, improved environmental quality, and the equitable. Accelerate the broad, ongoing public dialogue on lifecycle materials management. Biodegradable packaging and the resulting issues they pose to the waste management sector. It is designed to capture the diversity and unity of methods and approaches to materials processing, manufacturing, testing and. Sustainable materials management is a systemic approach to using and reusing materials. Mar 11, 2020 hear how the waste management sector is responding to the growing demand for more sustainable waste and recycling initiatives and the infrastructure needed to get there. From a materials management perspective, the blending of biodegradable compostable plastics is problematic, however, because separating biodegradable from potentially recyclable polymers is a challenge to both consumers and centralized refusesorting operations. Sustainable materials management secure destruction our assured destruction service ensures your waste products will be completely destroyed to guarantee any product from your company could never fall into the wrong hands, be resold or reused. Tim fields, senior vice president at mdb, chairs the sustainable materials management coalition, a diverse multistakeholder privatepublic partnership that aims to develop new national policy direction on sustainable materials management in the united states.
The sustainable development goalsthe road ahead rajiv kumar gupta with the onset of 2016, the sun has finally set on millennium development goals mdg s and a new set of universal goals, targets and indicators known as sustainable development goals s dgs. As we enter the 21st century, we face many environmental crises, including global warming, deforestation, endangered wildlife, shortages of potable water and widespread pollution, all which negatively affect our planets resources and can have adverse effects on our longterm. Sustainable materials management, the road ahead pdf 49 pp, 1 mb contact us to ask a question, provide feedback, or report a problem. In the months ahead, costbased data will be added to the database, and a marketing plan will be developed to evaluate and recruit participants. The road ahead acknowledgements the 2020 vision workgroup derry allen, us epa national center for environmental innovation shannon davis, us epa region 9 priscilla halloran, us epa office of resource conservation and recovery peggy harris, california department of toxic substances control kathy hart, us. The road ahead suggests a roadmap for the future based on materials management fulfilling human needs and prospering, while using less materials, reducing toxics and recovering more of the materials used. Sustainable landscape construction is part of the canon of landscape construction texts, and with this update, remains a visionary, one of a kind reference for professionals and students. In medicine alone, the diversity of plastics uses is incredible. The full plan is available as volume 1 of the city of tacoma sustainable materials management plan. The stated mission of the us environmental protection agency epa is to protect human health and the environment.
Allwood is a reader in engineering at the university of cambridge, a fellow of gonville and caius college at the university, and a head of the colleges low carbon materials processing research group. Some of the sustainable paving materials and technologies the paving industry has already adopted include recycled asphalt pavement rap, recycled asphalt shingles ras, ground tire rubber gtr, and recycled concrete aggregate. The cuyahoga county solid waste district is the leading resource in cuyahoga county for information, expertise and programs that support sustainable materials management and reduce the environmental impact of waste. By looking at a products entire life cycle, we can find new opportunities to reduce. This executive summary provides an overview of this plan. In june 2009 the epa put out a report that functioned as a road map to smm in the u. In many sectors of society, plastics have replaced glass, wood, fibers, and metal in various products, including dishware, clothing, food packaging. This past year has been marked by corporate and commercial real estate leaders who have increasingly embraced the principles of sustainability to reduce operating expenses, enhance enterprise value and align real estatefacility portfolios with their organizations goals of financial performance and environmental excellence.
Here are some of the steps we took to accomplish that. The road ahead, which details the importance of sustainable materials management practices. Sustainable materials management involves using or reusing materials in the most productive and sustainable way possible. Promoting stormwater quality and quantity control through this category increases awareness of road impact and encourages the use of pervious surfaces. Projections estimate that between 2000 and 2050, the world population will grow 50 percent and global energy and materials use will grow 300 percent. We identify and share effective greenhouse gas emission reduction strategies that also improve the way communities source, use, and recover. Mcleod professor sustainable pavement engineering director centre for pavement and transportation technology. Toward sustainable supply chain management integrated business. These strategies can also include transport demand management solutions like congestion charging, which can disincentivize people from driving in crowded areas at busy times, thereby reducing unnecessary congestion. It represents a change in how our society thinks about the use of natural resources and environmental protection. I in the past 50 years, humans have consumed more resources than in all previous history. Guided by our new total tnsc concept, the entire taiyo nippon sanso group will implement a variety of measures designed to achieve the targets set forth under ortus stage 2 with the aim of ensuring sustainable growth.
The road ahead report used an eeio model to perform an initial analysis of us. May 21, 2019 with the ever increasing awareness in sustainability and ever dwindling natural resources, the paving industry has been striving for innovations in road construction. Life cycle thinking life cycle assessment analysis environmental. The road ahead for electric vehicles to create a sustainable, equitable future world resources institute. In june 2012, the sustainable materials management coalition issued the report sustainable materials management. Exploring the road ahead for car mobility page iii preface the concept of sustainable development, achieving improvement on social, environmental and economical aspects always interested me. Identifying and promoting sustainable practices in public works substainable practices in public works issue august 015 identifying and promoting sustainable practices in public works materials management, technology and training for winter road maintenance ublic works and transportation departments tasked. Tacomapierce county solid waste management plan of 2008.
The fao subregional workshop on criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management in kyrgyzstan, kazakhstan and other central asia regional countries held in august, 2004. It is designed to capture the diversity and unity of methods and approaches to materials processing, manufacturing, testing and evaluation across disciplines and length scales. Book entitled risk assessment in the federal gov ernment. The conference will feature the theme, rcra corrective action. Sustainable materials management, the road ahead climate. Earth day seeks to highlight and promote efforts dedicated to the protection of the environment. After previous researches on free public transport and on cycling in tanzania and in the netherlands, it was time to discover the. A snapshot of activities in the united states march 1997. Diagram adapted from sustainable materials management.
Read the book sustainable materials with both eyes open. Mcleod professor sustainable pavement engineering director centre for pavement and transportation technology university of waterloo. Sustainable materials management coalition 2012 report. Pdf road asset management for sustainable development. The resolution called for the development of a sustainable materials management plan to ensure that the diversion goal of 70 percent or more by 2028 is met and it defined sustainable materials management as an approach that. Epas sustainable materials management basics website. Some of the sustainable paving materials and technologies the paving industry has already adopted include recycled asphalt pavement rap, recycled asphalt shingles ras, ground.
A practical roadmap to sustainable business process management jeston, john, nelis, johan on. Medical and public health applications of plastics. Jan 25, 2012 the key to sustainable real estate strategy success in 2012 will rely on. Overall, this is an excellent and extremely practical book highly recommended for the planning profession as a whole. Sustainable packaging solution is the modern era, high tech version of the tradition packaging solution with enhanced features having more durability and sustainability that helps food stay fresh for more time and thus helps consumers in getting higher roi. Science march 2012 i found this book to be well researched with reasoned and compelling arguments. Every ounce of weight on an airplane contributes to fuel efficiency and emissions reduction. Climate and energy resources for state, local and tribal governments. Thats equivalent to taking 6,400 cars off the road. I with less than 5% of the worlds population, the u. This roadmap offers actionable recommendations for sustainable materials management in cook county. This book, from noted materials selection authority mike ashby, provides a structure and framework for analyzing sustainable development and the role of materials in it.
The fact sheet summarizes information on the 3rs initiative and related policies to foster materials management through the development, use, and disposition of products and services. Prosthetics, engineered tissues, and microneedle patches for drug delivery are all possible with polymers 10, 11. Lucyna kurtyka, senior scientific program director at the foundation for food and agriculture research, moderated the final panel focused on the impacts of reducing food loss and waste on the environment, in addition to a health perspective related to consumers and to the workforce who deals with food loss and waste. Mdb manages the sustainable materials management coalition, a diverse privatepublic partnership that provides information and aims to develop new policies on sustainable materials management. An approach to serving human needs by usingreusing resources productively and sustainably throughout their life cycles, generally minimizing the amount of materials involved and all associated environmental impacts. In 2017, we evaluated the materials we use and made some changes to keep 30,000 metric tons of co 2 out of the air. Materials steel, nonferrous metals, glass, ceramics, cement, paper, other materials fabrication. Every step in the life cycle consumes energy and resources, and every. The goal is to support fhwas livability and sustainability goals by raising the awareness and visibility of sustainability considerations in the design, construction. The sustainable road ahead professor susan tighe, phd, peng canada research chair norman w. The workgroup makes three major recommendations to epa and state environmental. The aim is to introduce ways of exploring sustainable development to readers in a way that avoids simplistic interpretations and approaches complexity in a systematic way. The west coast climate and materials management forum is a collaboration of state, local, and tribal governments that develop ways to institutionalize sustainable materials management practices.
The us epa has adopted sustainable materials management as a regulatory framework for managing materials. Sustainable materials management smm is a systemic approach to using and reusing materials more productively over their entire life cycles. The book shall serve as a comprehensive and authoritative resource on sustainable manufacturing of ceramics, metals and their composites. The information collected in sustainable landscape construction will help planners to better integrate the lofty goals of sustainability that are so easily bandied about, yet so hard to actually bring to fruition. Seldom recognized by the general public, the continually increasing percentage of impervious land cover has negative implications for stormwater runoff and management. The road ahead relative ranking of materials, products, and services consumed in the u. Using selected environmental criteria technical support document introduction the sustainable materials management. A new materials hierarchy, solutions to barriers, and recommendations for a path forward, which provides practical advice to various groups on how to incorporate life cycle thinking into materials management decisions. Data and research on resource productivity and waste including environmentally sound management of waste, trade of recyclables, critical metals in mobile phones, transboundary movement of waste. These trends make the shift to sustainable materials management critical. This book outlines a series of policy principles for smm, examines how to set and use targets for smm, and explores various policy instruments for smm. Public roads in pursuit of sustainable highways, november. Sustainable materials with both eyes open by julian m. The road ahead suggests a roadmap for the future based on materials managementfulfilling human.
Some of the factors in this process, as related to construction and management of the road, are described below. The road ahead suggests a roadmap for the future based on materials managementfulfilling human needs and prospering, while using less materials, reducing toxics and recovering more of the materials used. He is a recipient of an engineering and physical sciences research council leadership fellowship, which funds the wellmet2050 project, and a vice chairman of the international academy. Criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management. Hear how the waste management sector is responding to the growing demand for more sustainable waste and recycling initiatives and the infrastructure needed to get there. A practical roadmap to sustainable business process management. This project directly addresses the need to identify materials management practices for sustainable projects, as identified in the report. The road ahead mathy stanislaus assistant administra r or oli astean mergency response the ecos waste committee we are delighted to be discussing with you today a report, which is a product of the epa state 2020 vision workgroup, sustainable materials management. Green and sustainable manufacturing of advanced material. Further, these agencies should incorporate materials management as an important strategic approach for addressing climate change and other environmental challenges. Leading companies who recognize sustainability as a megatrend that presents strategic imperatives for senior executives, where real estate plays a prominent and sometimes guiding role in enterprise wide sustainability. The pavement issues which have the greatest potentialities for an environmental sustainable and resource efficient road asset management, are presented in the paper. Sustainable materials management coalition 2016 report.
Solutions to these problems will be market and volumedependent. The coalition is composed of representatives of business, academia, environmental and community organizations, and state and local governments, in partnership with the u. There is the potential not just to recover our own economy and environment, but also to assist developing nations in bypassing the less efficient practices of our history and achieving sustainable materials management. The road ahead integrated report year ended march 31, 2017. Materials management strategies should be integrated int regulatory development, permitting and partnership program re 3. Environmental protection agency epa published a report titled sustainable materials management. The integrated program covers asphalt, concrete, granular, and recyclable materials used in pavement systems and promotes research into new sustainable materials and processes. Sustainable materials management making better use of. Review of sustainable materials without the hot air. In this book, readers find a versatile resource that not only explains the basic principles of energy conversion and biomass conversion systems but also provides valuable insight into the design of biomass gasifiers. Cullen, the authors of sustainable materials, have engineering backgrounds, and that allows them to discuss an area that doesnt receive enough attentionmaking buildings and goods more efficient by making their.