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Am c d a t e i ? K 1 s t o m m i s m i e m fi p M 2 l ( 0 dAvailable online at Resources, Conservation and Recycling 52 (2008) 874–882 Substance flow analysis of copper in China Guo Xueyi ?, Song Yu School of Metallurgical Science Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, China Received 11 May 2007; received in revised form 30 October 2007; accepted 31 October 2007 Available online 4 March 2008 bstract The method of substance flow analysis (abbreviated as SFA) provides a helpful tool for the study of the industrial metabolism of a certain etal within a regional level. In this work the flow of copper in China, 2004, was traced within the STAF model, and the situation of production, onsumption and recycling of copper resources in China were introduced. The SFA is performed on copper flows during its 1-year life cycle in etail, and the resource efficiency of China was compared with that of China, 1994 and Europe, 2002. The result reveals that China is becoming big importer in the international copper market, and the resource efficiency of copper is much lower than that of the developed countries. As he biggest producer and consumer of copper in the world, China is facing a severe depletion of copper resources. How to increase the resource fficiency is a significant issue for copper industry of China. Based on the result, several advices were proposed in the paper, aiming to contribute mportant reference information for the industrial metabolism and resource management and recycling of copper industry in China. 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ecycl g a h a i s Q s o E i o s 2 a (eywords: Substance flow analysis; Copper; Life cycle; Resource efficiency; R . Introduction The substance flow analysis concerns with the flows when the ubstance enters and leaves the region in the study. It can be used o estimate the loss and the environmental impacts during vari- us processes in its life cycle. SFA plays an important part in the etabolism of indu