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COMMITTEE ON RENEWABLE RESOURCES FOR INDUSTRIAL MATERIALS: A LOOK BACK AND CONSIDERATION OF THE FUTURE
COMMITTEE ON RENEWABLE RESOURCES FOR INDUSTRIAL MATERIALS: A LOOK BACK AND CONSIDERATION OF THE FUTURE
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Committee on Renewable Resources for Industrial Materials (CORRIM) , has shown that the environmental impacts associated with raw-materials substitution are substantial in many cases greater than the environmental damage that restrictions on forest harvesting seek to avoid (National Research Council, 1976a,b)
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The net effect is that the environmental impacts of both materials substitution and the increased demand for wood from foreign sources are likely to cause significant harm to the global environment. Because wood accounts for a large portion of the nation's industrial rawmaterials consumption, significant restrictions on domestic wood production will tend to trigger the amount of substitution and import activity on a massive scale.
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has unique opportunities to increase the use of renewable resources as industrial materials. These resources derive from the growth of living organisms, plants and animals, using a large and very productive land base.
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The commission's charge included determination of · national and international materials requirements priorities and objectives, both current and future, including economic projections; · the relationship of materials policy to national and international population size and to the enhancement of environmental quality; · means for the extraction, development, and use of materials that can be recycled or reused or that self-destruct, to enhance environmental quality and conserve materials;
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"reexamine the role of renewable resources, as the other major component of natural resources, in helping better to meet the needs for materials in the future." In response, NAS appointed the NRC's CORRIM, whose mandate included the following: · Quantitative analysis of current materials flows for renewable resources as the basis for assessing the impact of potential future changes (compared with nonrenewable flows)
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The NRC's CORRIM submitted its final report in 1976. Because of time and budget limitations, and because of the critical energy supply problems that were the focus of national attention at the time, most of the efforts of CORRIM were dedicated to the energy consequences of substitution of renewable for nonrenewable resources.
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Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory.
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The scope and mission statement adopted by the independently formed CORRIM II Steering Committee is as follows: 1. Conduct a quantitative analysis of material and associated energy flows and balances for a wide range of construction components and systems and packaging materials using renewable and potential substitute resources including recycled materials; incorporate life cycle or "cradle to grave" considerations.
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CORRIM II STEERING COMMITTEES 2 Jim Bowyer, Director, Forest Products Management Development Institute, Department of Forest Products, University of Minnesota (Chair) Don Berry, Manager, Timber Resources, Trus Joist MacMillan, Boise, Idaho James Bethel, Dean Emeritus, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington Conor Boyd, Vice President, Weyerhaeuser Company, Tacoma, Washington J
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Forest Products Society. National Commission on Materials Policy.
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