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Materials Matter Towards a Sustainable Materials Policy

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By: Ken Geiser(Author), Barry Commoner(Foreword By)
317 pages, 12 illustrations
Publisher: MIT Press
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  • Materials Matter ISBN: 9780262571487 Paperback Jul 2001 Out of Print #119408
  • Materials Matter ISBN: 9780262072168 Hardback no dustjacket Dec 2001 Out of Print #119409
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The products we purchase and use are assembled from a wide range of naturally occurring and manufactured materials. But too often we create hazards for the ecosystem and human health as we mine, process, distribute, use, and dispose of these materials. Until recently, most research has focused on the waste end of material cycles. Materials Matter argues that the safest and least costly point at which to avoid environmental damage is when materials are first designed and selected for use in industrial production.

Materials Matter presents convincing evidence that we can use fewer materials and eliminate the use of many toxic chemicals by focusing directly on material (chemical) use when products are designed. It also shows how manufacturers can save money by increasing the effectiveness of material use and reducing the use of toxic chemicals. It advocates new directions for the material sciences and government policies on materials. And it argues that manufacturers, suppliers, and customers need to set more socially responsible policies for products and services to achieve higher environmental and health goals.

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Ken Geiser is Professor Emeritus of Work Environment at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Founder and past Codirector of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, and the author of Materials Matter: Toward a Sustainable Materials Policy. One of the authors of the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act, he was Director of the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute for thirteen years.

Out of Print
By: Ken Geiser(Author), Barry Commoner(Foreword By)
317 pages, 12 illustrations
Publisher: MIT Press
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"This book should be required reading for industrial designers, materials scientists, chemical engineers and environmental policy-makers everywhere."
– Tim Jackson, Nature

"In this timely and insightful major contribution to the sustainable development literature, Professor Ken Geiser urges a policy shift from assessing the environmental consequences of an industrial economy increasingly dependent on chemicals and metals to a double-pronged strategy of dematerialization and detoxification. Sustainable strategies for both government and private sector stakeholders are offered for designing and using inherently safer and environmentally-sound materials, redesigning process technology, and shifting from product to product-services."
– Nicholas A. Ashford, Professor of Technology and Policy, MIT, co-author of Technology, Law, and the Working Environment

"I congratulate Ken Geiser. I personally found this to be an interesting and a useful book. He has done a thorough job, particularly on the history of materials, creation of synthetic materials, and dissipation of toxics."
– David Berry, Chair, Federal Interagency Working Group on Industrial Ecology, Materials and Energy Flows

"Geiser effectively makes the case that materials matter in a virtual age. He provides a guide to developing a sustainable materials policy for citizen leaders, innovators in government, and scientists and engineers with a public policy bent."
– Francis Irwin, World Resources Institute

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