Tool damage is especially detrimental since it not only affects the quality of the parts but also causes higher material consumption and reduces maintenance intervals.
While services do have a lower material intensity per € of generated added value compared to other parts of the economy (see Table 1 above and the detailed table in the Additional file 5), the growing absolute importance of the service sectors in generating European GDP, however, results in high absolute material consumption of services.
While in the Western Industrial countries past investments into infrastructure are at least partially linked to current high levels of material consumption, the lack of infrastructure development in Sub-Saharan Africa also translates into comparatively low resource use.
Consumption falls into two broad patterns: too many people in rich countries are consuming at high, unsustainable levels, while many more people in poor countries are understandably seeking higher levels of material consumption.
This blade design has high strength and lower material consumption to achieve the low cost of complete rotor assembly of the wind turbine which actually covers more than 50% of the overall wind turbine cost.
As was illustrated for the export-orientation of Latin America and the Caribbean, this may result in high levels of apparent material consumption.
Drug-discovery programmes are exacting and demand high throughput, low cost, low material consumption and robust ranking of hits.
Friction connections are suitable for higher towers, leading to less material consumption.
In other words, it has a higher buckling load, with smaller material consumption, compared with other partial double-layer reticulated shell structures.
The ecological unequal exchange theory also argues that this unequal trade relationship increases the level of material consumption in high-income countries, but undermines the living standards, level of material consumption and health status of the population in low-income countries.
