Growing demand for certain metals creates new push for sustainability
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 - 07:35
in Physics & Chemistry
Growing demand for certain metals used in automotive catalytic converters, computers, and other widely-used products - combined with a limited supply - is fostering a quest for ways to apply the principles of sustainability to humanity's use of metals. That's the topic of an article on sustainability - the effort to meet the needs of society today without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs - published in the 8 June issue of Chemical and Engineering News, ACS' weekly newsmagazine...