Announcing the launch of the Industrial Ecology of Metals Forum

[Gary Miller <gmiller@wmrc.uiuc.edu>]

We are pleased to announce the launch of a free new tool that promotes
the application of industrial ecology and facilitates research on
material flows. This tool is the Industrial Ecology of Metals Forum. You
are being invited to become a member of this new Forum because you are
interested in trace metals present in commodity flows, the volume of
commodity flows, and/or material flow analyses. 

The Industrial Ecology of Metals Forum maintains two web-based dynamic
and interactive compendia of data: one containing the concentrations of
metals found in various high volume materials, and the other containing
the flow rate information for high-volume materials. A discussion group
focused on building and maintaining the compendia completes the Forum.  
When you join the discussion group you can suggest additions to the
compendia and make comments on specific entries.

We anticipate that you will find the Forum to be a helpful research tool
as well as a vehicle for disseminating information that you have
gathered. In addition to flow rates and concentrations, the Forum
contains an area for comments on data quality issues, such as
shortcomings in analytical techniques employed or where more accurate
data can be found. The compendia are available to the general public for
viewing, but only Discussion Group members can make additions to or
comments on data contained in the compendia. We invite you to join the
Discussion Group.

The Industrial Ecology of Metals home page is located at
http://www.glrppr.org/iem/

Please take a moment to acquaint yourself with the types of information
contained in the compendia. We hope you will join us, and ask you to help
us spread the word about the benefits of the Forum.  We are inviting
experts in materials flows from industry and academia as well as
pollution prevention practitioners to join in this new tool.  when
you join you can select to receive e-mail notification of new messages
posted to this Discussion Group.

Funding for the Forum is provided by the USEPA?s Great Lakes National
Programs Office and by Region 5.

Sincerely,

Gary D.
Miller                     
                      
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