Summary

The UK’s material footprint captures domestic and foreign extraction of materials needed to produce products used in the UK. This article presents updated estimates.

Publications

• Material footprint in the UK: 2017

  The UK’s material footprint captures the amount of domestic and foreign extraction of materials needed to produce the goods and services used by households, governments and charities in the UK.

Data

• Material flow accounts

  Data on the UK's domestic extraction, imports and exports and flow of materials (biomass, minerals and fossil fuels), 1990 to 2022.

• Material footprint in the UK

  The UK’s material footprint captures the amount of domestic and foreign extraction of materials needed to produce the goods and services used by households, governments and charities in the UK.

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