Material Efficiency

MCLI Recommendation: “Congress and the administration should provide financial support for demonstration projects for materials efficiency that reduce CO2 emissions, such as reusable nanoscale materials in high-volume manufacturing.”

LPDD Recommendation: “Congress and the administration should pursue material efficiency strategies such as lightweighting, reduced yield loss, diverted scrap, reuse, increased product life-span, and greater product use intensity.”

LPDD Recommendation: “Congress and the administration should support material efficiency with certification, labeling, and standard-setting as well as preferential purchasing and targeted RD&D support (e.g., R&D integration through DOE’s Energy Materials Network consortia led by one or more national laboratories).”

LPDD Recommendation: “DOE, state and local governments should employ a mix of policies to drive material efficiency across the life cycle.”