Table of Contents

Sustainability and Metals.- Outlines of a Sustainable Metals Industry.- Metallic Raw Materials — Constituents of Our Economy.- Economy, Thermodynamics, and Sustainability.- Aluminium.- Prospects for a Sustainable Aluminum Industry.- Towards a Sustainable Copper Industry?.- An Application of Exergy Accounting to Five Basic Metal Industries.- Entropy as a Measure for Resource Consumption — Application to Primary and Secondary Copper Production.- Dematerialization of the Metals Turnover.- Sustainability Strategies in Field Trial.- Metals Materials Flows.- Limits of Metal Recycling.- Secondary Materials in Steel Production and Recycling.- Optimisation Possibilities of Copper Smelting and -Processing.- The Hamburger Aluminium-Werk GMBH’s Contribution to a Sustainable Closed Loop Aluminium System.- Sustainable Use of Copper.- Ecological, Social, Toxicological, and Cultural Effects.- Heavy Metals in the Netherlands.- Toxic Effects of Metals and Metal Compounds.- Metallurgical Plants and Chemicals Industry as Challenges to Environmental Protection in the 19th Century.- Copper Mining and Metallurgy in Prehistoric and the More Recent Past.- Social and Ecological Consequences of the Bauxite-Energy-Aluminium Product Line.- The Ok Tedi Pages.- Product Design and Use.- Metals and Plastics - Competition or Synergy?.- Sustainability-Optimised Material Selection and Product Design at Audi.- Recycling of Electronic Waste Material.- Sustainable Development of Microelectronics Industry.- The Role of Metals for Designing Products and Solutions in the Context of a Sustainable Society.