The steel industry, abiotic resource depletion and life cycle assessment: a real or perceived issue?

摘要: Time and again, there has been a hue cry that the world is running out of natural resources most prominent among those famous study entitled ‘The Limits to Growth’ by ‘Club Rome’. Since then fear scarcity abiotic challenging human societies around globe, particularly research community. In this paper we will examine case steel industry argue how why mineral depletion an issue needs be addressed through life cycle assessment in more detail. This shows comprehensive understanding about current production trends iron ore steel, which also requires several vital metals such as copper, manganese, nickel so on, can provide useful insights assessing potential future threat shortages due resources.