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Overall resource flows and impacts of the region
Balancing the books
Material flow analysis puts another light on our impacts:
- Primary industries such as agriculture, fishing, forestry and mining bring 5.3 tonnes per person per year into the NW economy.
- Imports from overseas bring another 2.2 tonnes per person, and half of that tonnage is then exported.
- All these materials are then circulated around in the economy from one sector to another, until they reach the point of sale or 'final demand'.
- Households purchase directly nearly 1.9 tonnes per person of food and other products, and capital investment is another 0.3 tonnes
- Waste accounts for over half the material flow at 4.2 tonnes per person
