Introducing "Embedded Toxicity": A Necessary Metric for the Sound Management of Building Materials

Jonathan Blumenthal; Miriam L Diamond; Gang Liu; Zhanyun Wang

doi:10.1021/acs.est.2c03128

Introducing "Embedded Toxicity": A Necessary Metric for the Sound Management of Building Materials

Environ Sci Technol. 2022 Jul 19;56(14):9838-9841. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.2c03128. Epub 2022 Jul 5.

Authors

Jonathan Blumenthal¹, Miriam L Diamond^{1

2}, Gang Liu³, Zhanyun Wang^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B1, Canada.
² School of the Environment, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B1, Canada.
³ SDU Life Cycle Engineering, Department of Green Technology, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense, Denmark.
⁴ Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Technology and Society Laboratory, 9014 St. Gallen, Switzerland.
⁵ Chair of Ecological Systems Design, Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.

PMID: 35786890
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c03128

No abstract available

Keywords: building materials; embedded toxicity; environmental footprints; hazardous chemicals; life cycle thinking; sound management of chemicals and waste.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Construction Materials*
Waste Management*