10 using resources

• Industries


  • Use the Earth's natural resources to manufacture useful products
  • Seek to minimise the use of limited resources, use of energy, waste and environmental impact in the manufacture of these products
  • Aim to develop ways of disposing of products at the end of their useful life in ways that ensure that materials and stored energy are utilised
• Pollution, disposal of waste products and changing land use has a significant effect on the environment
• Environmental chemists


  • Study how human activity has affected the Earth's natural cycles
  • Study how damaging effects can be minimised