Introduction: Materials and the materials cycle, and its impacts on ecology, introduction to recycling sustainability, Energy and Energy Accounting Mineral: Resources and its utilization by Industries,Producing ores and concentrates, Producing metals and manufactured mineral products Primary production: Energy consumption in primary production, Water consumption, Wastes from primary production, Management of wastes from primary production, Processing routes for extraction of common metals from their ores
Metal Industries: Present and future availability and demand of minerals and metals, Aluminium, Copper, Iron and Magnesium, New techniques of sustainable extractions and usage Secondary Materials and recycling: Life cycle analysis, Techniques of recycling for some important metals. Recycling of Electronic Waste, Towards zero waste, Towards sustainability Materials Thermodynamics and Economy: Introduction, Ecological, social and economical constraints, Role of materials for designing products and processes for sustainable society