Switzerland consumes 87 million tons of material each year

Buildings, industrial plants, roads, cars, gasoline, electricity and all other consumption: What does Switzerland consume each year? How much of it is exported or disposed of? How much flows back into the economy? And what are the consequences for the environment? For a research team at Empa’s Technology and Society lab, finding precise answers to these questions was a complex task.


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Source: Phys.org