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Materials stewardship is about companies contributing to sustainability by making the best use of intelligent design and application of technology to increase recoveries, by extending the resource base through reduced losses, by reducing the use of materials per unit of production, by diverting "waste" materials to productive uses and by restoring resources such as land and water to productive use. 

Mining of the ocean floor, discussed since Jules Verne wrote 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, will soon become reality – and experts are calling for improved international “stewardship”.

The ethical, environmental and social performance criteria that will compose this new standard are expected to be defined by 2014, following multi‐stakeholder consultation to ISEAL specifications. Once defined and publicly launched, the expectation is that aluminium industry organizations will want to adopt these criteria to produce, use or re‐use aluminium.