Production NW - Production Metabolism
The energy, materials, carbon and footprint of the NW economy
Materials in consumption
The same material inputs eventually find their way to the consumer (the exports to rest of world is shown here twice for reference). This list of sectors covers only the primary and secondary industries, as there is no regular data recorded for service sectors.
It does show clearly the very large volumes going to households, coming from agriculture and food, and from energy fuels. It also shows the large volumes going into capital investment (mainly buildings) from the non-metallic products sectors, i.e. building materials and so on, which pass through the construction sector itself (classified as a service industry). Major volumes of solid waste also arise from these three sectors.
