Tracking Heavy Metal Life Cycle Pathways with Input-Output Methods
Faculty: Faculty: Lave (Economics), Hendrickson (Civil and Env. Eng.),
Matthews (CEE & Eng. Public Policy), Small (CEE & EPP)
Post-Doc: Post-Doc: Suh (Env. Eng.)
Graduate Students: Graduate Students: Amit Goyal, Troy Hawkins, Cortney Higgins, Paulina Jaramillo
Undergraduate: Undergraduate: Roxanne Bromiley (Summer)
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.
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.
