Sankey Diagrams in Material Flow Accounting
Another field where Sankey diagrams are used widely is Material Flow Accounting, the analysis of material flows on a national or regional level. MFA focuses on bulk materials or individual substances...
View ArticleLying with Sankey diagrams (2)
The below Sankey diagram of the ‘Material Flows of Japan in the FY 2000’ has been published by the Japanese Ministry of Environment (環境大臣) and has been reproduced in a number of publications and...
View ArticleMaterials Accounting and Mass Balances
Environment Canada in 2001 published a Pollution Prevention Planning Handbook, a 153 page guidance manual on processes and techniques for pollution prevention. Update: The original handbook has been...
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Swiss Biomass Sankey Diagrams
Gabor Doka pointed me to a publication by the Swiss EPA (Federal Office for the Environment, FOEN). The publication titled “Biogene Güterflüsse der Schweiz 2006” (‘Flows of biogenic goods in...
View ArticleGold Flows in United States
This Sankey diagram was posted as a sample on the e!Sankey Forum. It shows the gold flows in the United States in 1998. The original data is from ‘Flow Studies for Recycling Metal Commodities in the...
View ArticleMaterial Flows on the Island of Hawai’i
A group of graduate students form the Center of Industrial Ecology at Yale University in 2005/2006 researched the material flows on the “Big Island of Hawai’i”. Their research report (which can be...
View ArticleNew blog on MFA diagrams
A new blog dedicated to Material Flow Analysis (MFA) diagrams is available over at blogspot. Material Flow Analysis (also refered to as Material Flow Accounting) is a research topic that focuses on...
View Article3D circular Sankey ugliness
You might remember the radial Sankey diagrams “invented” by Visio guy (here). This 3-D version below left me speechless… I hope the guys at junkcharts dedicate a critical evaluation to it…. [See image...
View ArticleShow it with Sankey Diagrams
Phosporus in the natural environment and the food chain has been a topic of several posts on my blog. So it didn’t come as a surprise to find yet another diagram on phoshphorus flows over at Nels’s MFA...
View ArticleEU Steel Flows, from MFA Diagram
Browsing through the blogs on data visualization and infographics (check my blogroll) I often find inspiration in Nels’ MFA diagrams. From time to time I like to beef up the skinny MFA diagram...
View ArticleCircular Economy Sankey Diagrams
Yesterday it became known that the European Commission would shelve their circular economy package of waste, recycling and incineration laws for now, in favour of an even more ambitious legislation to...
View ArticleLead Flows with Regional Scope
Material Flow Analysis (MFA) looks at substances or materials, often with a regional or national scope. MFA also has a stronger emphasis on stocks and stock changes. From the MFA blog (see blogroll on...
View ArticleJapan Material Flow 2003
Another wild like-to-be Sankey diagram. Found this on a resources and links list related to ‘material flow’ hosted at Hiroshima University. The diagram is from a white paper on a ‘Recycling Society’...
View ArticleHow Circular is the Global Economy?
I had previously reported on Sankey diagrams being used in articles on circular economy (earlier this year in January and back in 2013). Researchers in the field of MFA, circular economy and urban...
View ArticleEU Raw Material System Analysis
A study on key raw materials and their flows “through the EU economy, as raw materials or as parts of basic materials, components or products” has been produced by BIO Intelligence Service for the...
View ArticleEurope JRC Critical Materials Report
Europe’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published a new report on ‘Critical Raw Materials and the Circular Economy’ in December 2017. The report also builds on findings from a 2015 study by BIO by...
View ArticleMinerals Exergy Replacement Costs
Another example for a Sankey diagram on a map from an article ‘Exergoecology Assessment of Mineral Exports from Latin America: Beyond a Tonnage Perspective’ by Jose-Luis Palacios (Escuela Politécnica...
View ArticleMaterial Flows in the EU economy
Up on the EUR-Lex, the European Union’s database on laws, regulations, publications and reports is a staff working paper ‘Measuring progress towards circular economy in the European Union – Key...
View ArticleEuropean Copper Streams 2012
After all these colorful Sankey diagrams, here is something soothing for your eyes. This b/w Sankey diagram shows European copper streams in 2012. It is taken from the 2017 dissertation by Simon...
View ArticleUK Resource Flow 2014
This Sankey diagrams for the resource flows in the UK in 2014 can be found in the Digest of Waste and Resource Statistics – 2018 Edition. The report is published annually by UK’s Department for...
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