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With the passage of time we must increasingly rely on material resources of lower grade, decreased accessibility and less desirable type. Such raw materials require greater inputs of capital and energy, and greater environmental stress, per unit of useful product, for mining and processing. Increasing energy prices and necessary costs for environmental protection will compound the difficulty of satisfying our future materials needs. A strong materials-conservation ethic is proposed as a necessary foundation for a stable future for materials. This will require some changes in life-style as well as development of appropriate new technology. Returnablevs one-way beverage-container systems are discussed as an example of efficientvs inefficient use of materials, energy and the environment.
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Herbert H. Kellogg, a native New Yorker, received his training in metal-lurgy at Columbia University (B.S. 1941, M.S. 1942). From 1942 to 46 he was Assistant Professor of Mineral Preparation at the Pennsylvania State University. He joined the Columbia University faculty in 1946 as Assistant Professor of Ex-tractive Metallurgy.
He was made Associate Professor in 1951 and Professor in 1956. In 1968 he was honored by appointment as Stanley-Thompson Professor of Chemical Met-allurgy, a post that he still holds today. Professor Kellogg is the author of about seventy technical publications re-lating to the chemistry of metallurgical processes and the economics and energy requirements for metal production. His research interests currently involve the thermodynamic properties of molten mattes and slags, the modelling of metal production processes and the search for new process concepts that promise reduc-tion in energy requirements and abatement of environmental pollution. Over the years he has been active as a consultant to industry in areas of research planning, economic evaluation of new processes and patent litigation. He is currently con-sultant to The International Nickel Co., the American Smelting and Refining Co., and the Metallurgy Division of the U.S. Bureau of Mines. He served the U.S. Government, from 1954 to 57, as Chairman of the Tita-nium Advisory Committee of the Executive Office of the President, in planning for the growth of the titanium industry. He has been a member of many com-mittees of the National Academy of Sciences, the most recent being the Com-mittee of Mineral Science and Technology (1966 to 69) and the Committee on Mineral Resources and the Environment (1972 to 75). Professor Kellogg has been active in the affairs of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineering since 1950 when he established and was the first Chairman of the Committee on Physical Chemistry of Extrac-tive Metallurgy. He has since chaired numerous committees, was Chairman of the Extractive Metallurgy Division in 1958, and has served two terms on the Board of Directors of the Metallurgical Society. His honors include the Best Paper Award of the Extractive Metallurgy Divi-sion (AIME) in 1961, election to the grade of Fellow of the Metallurgical Society in 1972, and award of the James Douglas Gold Medal for Distinguished Achieve-ment in Nonferrous Metallurgy by AIME in 1973. In 1978 he was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineers with the citation: “Strength-ening the scientific base of metallurgical processes, and ability to unite theoretical studies with practical industrial needs.” In addition to membership in AIME, Professor Kellogg is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and the American Chemical Society. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (London) and delivered the thirteenth Sir Julius Wernher Memorial Lecture at that Institution in April of 1977.
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Kellogg, H.H. Toward a materials-conservation ethic. Metall Trans A 9, 1695–1704 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02663398
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