(2) Materials produced using a large proportion of waste material, including recycled polymers, composites made from waste mineral powders, and arguably also much steel and aluminium. (1) Materials of a significantly plant-based nature, including wood, natural fibre composites, natural polymers. With this definition, the list would include: It is probably sensible to define such materials as those that have distinct differences that achieve environmental benefit compared to conventional materials. For example, materials selection within the automotive industry is now heavily influenced by 'end-of-life vehicle' and 'hazardous material' regulations. cover issues such as design for successful recycling, waste minimisation, energy efficiency and increased lifetime. Topics that would come under this subject area include the specific environmental problems associated with processing of metals, polymers, ceramics, composites etc, and how these problems can be overcome. The environmental impact of raw materials extraction and processing together with global resource issues provides a good place to start consideration of environmental aspects of materials. Materials Extraction and Resource Implications. Life cycle analysis can be an extremely effective way of linking many different aspects of the environmental impacts of materials usage. It is often known as a 'cradle-to-grave' analysis and can encompass the entire lifetime from extraction to end-of-life disposal. Life Cycle Analysis is essentially a method of considering the entire environmental impact, energy and resource usage of a material or product. schematically shows how the disparate areas under the heading of 'environmental materials' can be linked via a life cycle analysis approach. This cycle diagram sample was created on the base of the figure illustrating the article "Environmental Materials" by Cris Arnold from the website of the UK Centre for Materials Education of the Higher Education Academy.
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The Energy resources diagram example was created in the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software using the Manufacturing and Maintenance solution from the Illustration area of ConceptDraw Solution Park. Energy conservation and the efficient use of energy would also help."
Renewable energy technologies include biofuels, solar heating and cooling, hydroelectric power, solar power, and wind power.
The large-scale use of renewable energy technologies would "greatly mitigate or eliminate a wide range of environmental and human health impacts of energy use". Burning fossil fuels for electricity generation also releases trace metals such as beryllium, cadmium, chromium, copper, manganese, mercury, nickel, and silver into the environment, which also act as pollutants. Carbon dioxide is an important greenhouse gas which is thought to be responsible for some fraction of the rapid increase in global warming seen especially in the temperature records in the 20th century, as compared with tens of thousands of years worth of temperature records which can be read from ice cores taken in Arctic regions. While burning these fossil fuels produces a readily available and instantaneous supply of electricity, it also generates air pollutants including carbon dioxide (CO2), sulfur dioxide and trioxide (SOx) and nitrogen oxides (NOx). Many electric power plants burn coal, oil or natural gas in order to generate electricity for energy needs. turning on a light) requires resources and has an effect on the environment.
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