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

Abstract

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.

To what extent can agent-based modelling enhance a life cycle assessment? Answers based on a literature review

“…Thirty-nine percent of the articles propose a graphic interface by which to visualize the ABM outputs. This graphical visualization can be rather elementary and illustrates, for example, the connections between the agents of the supply chain (Heairet et al, 2012;Mashhadi and Behdad, 2017) or the rate of adoption (Pambudi, Dowaki and Adhiutama, 2016). This graphical output is also used by Miller et al (2013) and Wu et al (2017) to display the spatial evolution of the agents.…”

“…-Complementary use has been experimented in two studies. ABM and LCA were used separately by Pambudi et al (2016) and Onat et al (2017). In these cases, ABM was used to determine the rate of adoption of several potential waste management systems (respectively electric car) since the community (respectively consumers) involvement and acceptation are necessary to assess sustainable plastic waste management (respectively battery electric vehicles), while LCA was used to assess the environmental impact of the different strategies.…”