The criteria account environmental factors through the product's life cycle (raw material extraction, production and distribution, use and refuse).

Recycling saves energy, reduces raw material extraction and combats climate change.

Keeping Jämtland as a clean environment, but also making it a region of raw material extraction.

The service sector is the largest sector in the economy, followed by manufacturing and construction and then farming and raw material extraction.

Hillslope failure (as at Aberfan in South Wales in 1966) is a geomorphic hazard but may arise because of raw material extraction.

More than 10% of the total materials used come from recycled source, reducing the need for raw material extraction.

Reuse and recycling efforts reduce harmful emissions and lessen the amount of land devoted to landfills and raw material extraction.

The major focus of research has been in agriculture and environmental impact on raw material extraction.

For example, the raw material extraction, material processing, transportation, distribution, consumption, reuse/recycling, and disposal must all be considered when evaluating the environmental impact.

Reuse saves natural resources by decreasing the necessity of raw material extraction.