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.