Current Projects

Faculty research interests include the theoretical basis of industrial ecology, the cycles of materials, technological change and the environment, eco-industrial urban development, industrial symbiosis, and product and producer policy issues.

Marian Chertow

REMADE - A Dynamic Techno-economic Systems Modeling Framework for U.S. Fiber Recycling

Industrial Ecology in Developing Countries

Reusing Non-Hazardous Industrial Waste in the U.S.: A Geo-Specific Estimate of Quantities and Benefits

Marian Chertow|Barbara Reck

Shared Autonomy for the Dull, Dirty, and Dangerous: Exploring Division of Labor Between Humans and Robots and Transforming the Recycling Sorting Industry

Reid Lifset

Extended Producer Responsibility and Cities

Thomas Graedel

Tracing past, present, and future battery critical elements in the United States: material flows of lithium and cobalt"

The Criticality of Metals

Yuan Yao

Biochar Systems for Sustainable Applications in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus

Pathways to Sustainable Bioeconomy

Environmental Implications of Emerging Technologies