![Waste - Meaning and me](/sites/default/files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/2022-02/3_0.png?itok=9F45uJq0)
1. “Material footprint” means the sum of the total amount of all raw materials extracted
![data](/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/2022-01/image110.png?itok=iTmik4tc)
![data](/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/2022-01/image111.png?itok=TH5FC1AZ)
2. “MF” is the attribution of global material extraction to domestic final demand, hence is given in absolute tons, in t per person, or in t per GDP
![data](/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/2022-01/image112.png?itok=vKBb5Fym)
![data](/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/2022-01/image113.png?itok=8g_ZSty_)
3. MFs quantify the demand for all material extractions (biomass, metal ores, non-metallic minerals and fossil energy ...), regardless of where it takes place worldwide
![data](/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/2022-01/image114.png?itok=E-mrZZcE)
![data](/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/2022-01/image115.png?itok=EX-dfbxK)
4. “MF” provides a consumption perspective of resource use and new insights into the actual resource productivity of nations, including all chains.
![data](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-01/image116.png?itok=_CnrRNDI)
![overview map rounded](/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2022-02/image.png?itok=rC7BvvXy)
__________________________________
Sources:
- https://journalofeconomicstructures.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40008-016-0048-5, Figure 1
https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2019/goal-12/ - https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2019/goal-12/
https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2019/goal-12/ - -
- https://journalofeconomicstructures.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40008-016-0048-5