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8 Summary of Metrics Used by the Four Industry Sectors
8 Summary of Metrics Used by the Four Industry Sectors
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As can be seen from Table 8-1, a number of metrics emissions, energy use, materials use, water use, packaging, percent of recycled material used, and various measures of worker safety are relatively common across all sectors, although the exact definitions may differ somewhat. Several sectors are dealing in some way with the question of sustainability, either by looking at the use of land, the emission of greenhouse gases, or by searching for an appropriate metric.
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A GENERIC METRICS SET If the metrics set identified in Table 8-1 were tentatively regarded as a suitable generic set for the four industrial sectors analyzed in Chapters 4-7, how well might the set serve other manufacturing industries? To investigate this question, the committee briefly examined the suitability of the set for six additional sectors: agriculture, appliance manufacture, metal fabrication, mining, pharmaceuticals, and recycling facilities.
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GM4 Percent of recycled materials in products GM5 Percent of products that are leased GM6 Resource consumption and/or emissions during product use GM7 Average use of packaging GM Emissions from manufacturing (normalized in some appropriate way) GMg Recordable health and safety incident rate GM~o A sustainability metric of some type One could go on from this point to ask whether a generic environmental metrics set would be suitable not only for manufacturing industry sectors but also service industry sectors.
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150 INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE METRICS TABLE 8-2 Fit of a Generic Metric Set for Hypothetical Service-Sector Businesses Metric A B G H L P GM1 ?
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