From the Cover: Metal stocks and sustainability Export

@article{citeulike:487606, abstract = {The relative proportions of metal residing in ore in the lithosphere, in use in products providing services, and in waste deposits measure our progress from exclusive use of virgin ore toward full dependence on sustained use of recycled metal. In the U.S. at present, the copper contents of these three repositories are roughly equivalent, but metal in service continues to increase. Providing today's developed-country level of services for copper worldwide (as well as for zinc and, perhaps, platinum) would appear to require conversion of essentially all of the ore in the lithosphere to stock-in-use plus near-complete recycling of the metals from that point forward.}, author = {Gordon, R. B. and Bertram, M. and Graedel, T. E.}, citeulike-article-id = {487606}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/103/5/1209}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16432205}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=16432205}, day = {31}, journal = {PNAS}, keywords = {researchsynopsis}, month = {January}, number = {5}, pages = {1209--1214}, posted-at = {2006-01-31 19:56:16}, priority = {2}, title = {From the Cover: Metal stocks and sustainability}, url = {http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/103/5/1209}, volume = {103}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:487606 L3 - citeulike-article-id:487606 N2 - The relative proportions of metal residing in ore in the lithosphere, in use in products providing services, and in waste deposits measure our progress from exclusive use of virgin ore toward full dependence on sustained use of recycled metal. In the U.S. at present, the copper contents of these three repositories are roughly equivalent, but metal in service continues to increase. Providing today's developed-country level of services for copper worldwide (as well as for zinc and, perhaps, platinum) would appear to require conversion of essentially all of the ore in the lithosphere to stock-in-use plus near-complete recycling of the metals from that point forward. IS - 5 JF - PNAS EP - 1214 TI - From the Cover: Metal stocks and sustainability VL - 103 SP - 1209 KW - researchsynopsis AU - Gordon, RB AU - Bertram, M AU - Graedel, TE PY - 2006/01/31/ UR - http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/103/5/1209 ER -