A life cycle assessment of mechanical and feedstock recycling options for management of plastic packaging wastes

Perugini, Floriana; Mastellone, Maria Laura; Arena, Umberto

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“…Another study conducted by Arena et al [5] defined through the analytical comparison between the six scenarios showed that the recycling option always environmentally preferable. Another study from Perugini et al [6] confirmed that recycling scenarios are always preferable to those of non-recycling. Thus, recycling is one appropriate technology which could be considered to avoid greater impact to environment.…”

Section: Life Cycle Assessment Of Plastic Waste Management Systemmentioning

confidence: 93%

Integrated Index in Consideration of Appropriate Plastic Recycling System in Waste Bank Operation

2016

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Abstract. Several appropriate technology had been developed to maintain plastic waste in society according to minimize environmental impact. Landfill is no longer appropriate to maintain plastic waste based on the environmental impact that might be occurred for instance. However in developing countries such as Indonesia, although plastic recycling technology have been promoted by maintain waste bank policy for support community willingness to exchange their recyclable waste with certain monetary values, there is no guarantee that community will fully accept plastic recycling technology. This research aims to assess the performance of plastic recycling in environmental and social aspects as its integrated index. From that assessment, appropriate strategies in plastic recycling will be delivered in this research. Environmental aspects will be assessed by using life cycle assessment (LCA) through MiLCA software and selected by using data envelopment analysis (DEA). Social aspects will be analyzed by using qualitative and quantitative methodology such as observation, interview, secondary data, and questionnaires. Simulation and modelling will also developed by using agent-based modelling (ABM) to describe social dynamic of community in supporting waste bank policy. The appropriate system of plastic recycling will be promoted as expected results for this research.

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Section: Life Cycle Assessment Of Plastic Waste Management Systemmentioning

confidence: 93%

Integrated Index in Consideration of Appropriate Plastic Recycling System in Waste Bank Operation

2016

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“…Since there is no PET recycling process in the GaBi ® Database, inventory data from two different PET recycling processes found in the literature were used [36,37]. Data from Arena et al [37] were used in the study, and sensitivity analysis was performed with Perugini et al [36] data in order to analyse their influence on the final results. Tables S1 and S2 in Supplementary Material (SM) include the data that was used.…”

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Application of Eco-Design and Life Cycle Assessment Standards for Environmental Impact Reduction of an Industrial Product

2017

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Eco-design is included within the framework of the standard for "Environmental management systems-Guidelines for incorporating Eco-design" (ISO 14006:2011). Eco-design process, as defined in standard, has six steps: (i) Specify product functions; (ii) Environmental assessment of products; (iii) Strategies of improvement; (iv) Environmental objectives; (v) Product specification; and (vi) Technical solutions.Step (ii), determination of the stage or process of the product life cycle that has the highest environmental impact; this is perhaps the most controversial step because the standard does not specify which tool should be used. This lack of specification has generated some distrust with regard to eco-design, hindering its development. In order to make a trustworthy eco-design, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) should be applied as a tool for environmental impact quantification. The main objective of this work is to apply standardised eco-design methodology for the reduction of the environmental impact of an industrial product in Spain using LCA as a tool for the environmental product assessment. LCA standardised process (ISO 14040,14044:2006) is included in the eco-design process. A glass container intended for cough syrup delivery has been selected as an industrial product to be eco-designed. Following the methodology described, the overall normalised impact decreased 35.1% when a PET container substituted a glass container. Environmental impacts have been reduced following standardised eco-design and LCA methodologies, serving as an example to industry and administration regarding how to eco-design with the confidence of obtaining reliable results.

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“…LCAs usually attempt to take every stage of product life cycle into account (Perugini et al, 2005) from raw material acquisition to final disposal.…”

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“…Interestingly, two LCAs compared incineration and an advanced thermal treatment technology pyrolysis (Perugini et al, 2005, Azapagic, 2007. Although different wastes were modelled, both studies indicated that pyrolysis gives more favourable environmental profile than incineration for MSW treatment in terms of energy consumption/recovery.…”

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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Light-Weight Eco-composites

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2012

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LCA of Light-weight Eco-composites Statement of originality 2 Statement of originalityI hereby declare that this submission is my own work and to the best of my knowledge it contains no materials previously published or written by another person.Contributions made to the research of this thesis by others, with whom I have worked with are explicitly acknowledged. I also declare that the intellectual content of this thesis is the product of my own work, except to the extent that assistance from others with data collection and modification of process-oriented model DNDC is acknowledged. Miao GuoSep 2010 LCA of Light-weight Eco-compositesAbstract 3 AbstractThe environmental profiles of novel wheat based foam materials were investigated in this thesis using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methods. The LCAs were developed using primary data collected from industrial sources combined with new laboratory experiments supplemented with secondary data from publicly available sources.Laboratory research was conducted to obtain important missing data on WBFs for the LCA modelling, including physico-chemical parameters, biodegradability and energy recovery under anaerobic digestion conditions.Contribution analysis suggested that the emissions evolved from the wheat agroecosystem and PVOH production, together with the energy and infrastructure involved in WBF production were the major contributors to the environmental burdens of the WBF life cycle in most impact categories. The atmospheric emissions resulting from WBF degradation at the end-of-life also emerged as another important contributor to environmental impact. Amongst the diverse ‗end-of-life' scenarios examined, AD and home composting were suggested to be the optimum choices for WBF waste treatment. This research discusses two N 2 O modelling approaches and presents a method to expand the system boundary by integrating the process-oriented model DNDC for field emissions into the LCA. Sensitivity analysis suggests that the environmental profiles of agricultural products are influenced substantially by the system boundary definition. LCA of Light-weight Eco-compositesAbstract 4 Furthermore, it suggests that the ‗general rule' in LCA practice by applying an empirical model or a default emission factor (EF) could deliver unreliable LCA findings.This study also evaluated the sensitivity of the LCA results to methodology and data variations and quantified the uncertainties in the LCA outcomes arising from uncertainty in the inventory and data variability. This has led to an increase in confidence in the LCA findings. At the same time it indicates the areas where improvements in data or methods are needed in order for robust conclusions to be drawn and unbiased information to be delivered e.g. the methodological rigidity of characterization models, the IPCC Tier 1 EF uncertainty range. LCA of Light-weight Eco-compositesAcknowledgements 5

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A life cycle assessment of mechanical and feedstock recycling options for management of plastic packaging wastes

Abstract: Life cycle assessment (LCA)

Cited by 283 publications

References 28 publications

Integrated Index in Consideration of Appropriate Plastic Recycling System in Waste Bank Operation

Integrated Index in Consideration of Appropriate Plastic Recycling System in Waste Bank Operation

Application of Eco-Design and Life Cycle Assessment Standards for Environmental Impact Reduction of an Industrial Product

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Light-Weight Eco-composites

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