Peak Waste? The Other Side of the Industrial Cycle

The modern industrial cycle is mainly based on non-renewable mineral resources extracted from the Earth’s crust. After being processed and transformed into commodities, the products of mining become manufactured products which go through the economic system and are then discarded in the form of gase...

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Main Authors: Ugo Bardi, Virginia Pierini, Alessandro Lavacchi, Christophe Mangeant
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-06-01
Series:Sustainability
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/6/7/4119