ECO-EFFECTIVENESS POTENTIAL AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY APPROACH FOR SUPPORTING THE RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN STEEL PRODUCTION

1 BURCHART-KOROL Dorota
Institution:
1 Central Mining Institute, Department of Energy Saving and Air Protection, Katowice, Poland, EU, dburchart@gig.eu
Conference:
25th Anniversary International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials, Hotel Voronez I, Brno, Czech Republic, EU, May 25th - 27th 2016
Proceedings:
Proceedings 25th Anniversary International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials
Pages:
1665-1670
ISBN:
978-80-87294-67-3
ISSN:
2694-9296
Published:
14th December 2016
Proceedings of the conference were published in Web of Science and Scopus.
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Abstract

Natural resources management is one of the environmental policy priorities in steel industry. In the paper, attention was given to the potential of eco-effectiveness and circular economy concept for supporting decision-making related to the management of natural resources in steel production. In this paper was explored the eco-efficiency and eco-effectiveness for supporting production management. It was presented the importance and the role of circular economy and life cycle approach for systematizing the problems of natural resource depletion in steel industry. Circular economy and cradle-to-cradle approach are fundamental elements for establishing more sustainable steel.

Keywords: Circular economy, eco-effectiveness, eco-efficiency, life cycle approach, steel industry

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