Industrial Metabolism, the Environment, and Application of Materials-Balance. Principles for Selected Chemicals

This report provides an important step in our understanding of material flows for four widely used inorganic chemicals, bromine, chlorine, sulfur, and nitrogen. Also, by invoking the concept of industrial metabolism, the authors provide a new vision for understanding how industrial sciences produce, process, use, and dispose of materials, and how these activities, taken as a whole, are linked to environmental change.