In order to be able to understand what environmental issues in material management means, it is first important to understand what material management is. The field of logistics and materials management works to “plan and direct how materials and equipment are used to produce goods and services” (Field of Study:...

The construction, operation, and maintenance of road pavements are responsible for significant greenhouse gases emission in the United States. At the construction stage, the U.S pavement network takes up to 460 million tons of crushed aggregate (Santero, Loijos, & Ochsendorf, 2013). More emission happens during the extraction of raw materials...