20240809 - Analysis (waste metals).xlsx

This Excel datafile includes the times series data on material and monetary flows of the global trade of waste metals between 2000 and 2022, and the analysis (ecological network analysis and ascendency analysis). This dataset is supplementary material to the publication:

"Zisopoulos F.K., Fath B.D., Toboso-Chavero S., Huang H., Schraven D., Steuer B., Stefanakis A., Clark O.G., Scrieciu S., Singh S., Noll D., de Jong M. (Accepted). Inequities blocking the path to circular economies: A bio-inspired network-based approach for assessing the sustainability of the global trade of waste metals. Resources, Conservation & Recycling. 212(January 2025), 107958."

F.K.Z. is grateful to the Impact for Sustainability Fund, a named fund at Stichting Erasmus TrustFonds, for funding (project number: 97090.2022.101.671/074/RB). The study falls within the Sino-Dutch project “Towards Inclusive CE: Transnational Network for Wise-waste Cities (IWWCs)” which is one of the projects of the Erasmus Initiative Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity, and it is co-funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); NWO project number: 482.19.608; NSFC project number: 72061137071. H.H. acknowledges his support with a grant from Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS). D.N. acknowledges funding under the research contract 2022.05039.CEECIND/CP1734/CT0001 (https://doi.org/10.54499/2022.05039.CEECIND/CP1734/CT0001) through the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) with MED (https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/05183/2020) and CHANGE (https://doi.org/10.54499/LA/P/0121/2020). The authors are grateful for the constructive comments of the editor and two anonymous reviewers.