{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,18]],"date-time":"2025-12-18T14:07:28Z","timestamp":1766066848599},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"EasyChair","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":[],"abstract":"<jats:p>This paper attempts to make a high-level estimate of the material footprints of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Entertainment and Media (E&amp;amp;M) sectors for one year from four different perspectives while including the full life cycle of products and applying a top-down perspective. The four perspectives explored are: i) amount of materials used; ii) carbon footprint of the materials focusing on Raw Materials Acquisition (RMA) and End of Life Treatment (EoLT) stages; iii) material resource depletion; and iv) toxicity of materials.<\/jats:p><jats:p>For the given assumptions, it is estimated that the sectors represent about 0,5% of the global annual usage of the selected materials, and for several materials (indium, gallium and germanium), ICT and E&amp;amp;M usage represents as much as 80-90% of the overall usage. Their use of materials represents about 0.9% of the carbon footprint for the selected materials, and about 0.1% of the total global carbon footprint, while the sectors material resource depletion potential is estimated to be between 13% and 48% of overall global depletion for the selected materials, depending on impact assessment method. Finally, the for toxicity of the selected materials, plus cement production, ICT and E&amp;amp;M are estimated to represent about 3.3%, based on ReCiPe. Toxicity and resource depletion results and the mass result for specific materials all indicate that the ICT and E&amp;amp;M sectors play a larger role than their average share of the total annual materials usage indicates, and gold and copper are identified as the most impacting materials. The applied top-down method provide only coarse estimates and further research is needed based on bottom-up methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.29007\/q5fw","type":"proceedings-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,5,11]],"date-time":"2018-05-11T16:33:34Z","timestamp":1526056414000},"page":"168-148","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["A high-level estimate of the material footprints of the ICT and the E&amp;M sector"],"prefix":"10.29007","volume":"52","author":[{"given":"Jens","family":"Malmodin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Pernilla","family":"Bergmark","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Sepideh","family":"Matinfar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"11545","event":{"name":"ICT4S2018. 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Sustainability"},"container-title":["EPiC Series in Computing"],"original-title":[],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2018,5,11]],"date-time":"2018-05-11T16:33:45Z","timestamp":1526056425000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/easychair.org\/publications\/paper\/XvgV"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[null]]},"references-count":0,"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.29007\/q5fw","relation":{},"ISSN":["2398-7340"],"issn-type":[{"type":"print","value":"2398-7340"}],"subject":[]}}