title: An Australian stocks and flows model for asbestos.
abstract: All available data on asbestos consumption in Australia were collated in order to determine the most common asbestos-containing materials remaining in the built environment. The proportion of asbestos contained within each material and the types of products these materials are most commonly found in was also determined. The lifetime of these asbestos containing products was estimated in order to develop a model that projects stocks and flows of asbestos products in Australia through to the year 2100. The model is based on a Weibull distribution and was built in an excel spreadsheet to make it user-friendly and accessible. The nature of the products under consideration means both their asbestos content and lifetime parameters are highly variable, and so for each of these a high and low estimate is presented along with the estimate used in the model. The user is able to vary the parameters in the model as better data become available.
authors.affiliation: Independent Consultant, Ocean Grove, Victoria, Australia smdonovan53@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Sally
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Donovan
authors.affiliation: Blue Environment, Melbourne, Australia.
authors.forename: Joe
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pickin
mesh_terms: D001194:Asbestos; D001315:Australia; D003252:Construction Materials / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006798:Housing; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012037:Refuse Disposal / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
chemical_list: D001194:Asbestos
keywords: Asbestos cement; Australia; asbestos consumption; asbestos-containing materials; environmental contamination; hazardous waste projection; stocks and flows modelling