Tracking Heavy Metal Life Cycle Pathways with InputOutput Methods

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Tracking Heavy Metal Life Cycle Pathways with
Input-Output Methods

• Faculty
• Lave (Economics), Hendrickson (Civil and Env.
  Eng.),
• Matthews (CEE Eng. Public Policy), Small (CEE
  EPP)
• Post-Doc
• Suh (Env. Eng.)
• Graduate Students
• Amit Goyal, Troy Hawkins, Cortney Higgins,
  Paulina Jaramillo
• Undergraduate
• Roxanne Bromiley (Summer)

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Progress to Date

• Updated www.eiolca.net to include 1997 benchmark.
• Initial heavy metal estimates of product and
  sector flows over multiple life cycles.
• Comparison of metal emissions databases and
  ambient air quality.
• Papers
• Lead Management Issues and Automobile Batteries
• Closing the Loop on Cadmium An Assessment of the
  Material Cycles of Zinc and Cadmium in the U.S.

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Broader Impacts

• www.eiolca.net still receiving heavy use.
• Continuing public concern for heavy metals in the
  environment.
• Apprenticeship secondary school outreach program
  on life cycle assessment.
• Design work for kid.eiolca.net.