LCA and Eco-design: Consequential and Attributional Approaches for Bio-based Plastics

Venkatachalam, Venkateshwaran; Spierling, Sebastian; Horn, Rafael; Endres, Hans‐Josef

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2017.11.086

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“…This takeout food container is fully made from biobased raw materials from local sources in Malaysia, i.e., sago starch and abundance of insignificant utilization of SPF [27], could have produced low impacts to the environment. This is supported with the theory that designing a more sustainable biobased product can be performed at several levels, and among them are at the raw material level with the sourcing of local biomass feedstocks [6].…”

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“…Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a standardized method to learn the potential environmental impacts of a product over its entire life-cycle [6]. LCA could also be a supporting tool in the design process to understand and assess the technical solutions to be employed in the production process so that the impacts could be minimized, not only from the product itself but also from the phases of use and the end-of-life [5].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…LCA could also be a supporting tool in the design process to understand and assess the technical solutions to be employed in the production process so that the impacts could be minimized, not only from the product itself but also from the phases of use and the end-of-life [5]. LCA can also be utilized for product development and improvement, strategizing plans, making public policies, marketing decisions, and a few different applications [5,6]. Many packaging-related studies have already been applying LCA as a comparative assessment tool [7][8][9][10].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Environmentally sustainable design is an approach to designing products that consider and integrate the impacts on the environment of the product system, even before its development phase. Designers, engineers, and stakeholders must understand the thinking behind the selection of the raw materials, manufacturing technologies, and processes in a product system by taking materials and energy efficiency into account [6]. A report mentioned that eco-design studies of incorporated products and packaging life cycles are becoming trends since the search for alternative materials and their end-of-life routes are vital in the present and future of LCA for packaging [14].…”

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Life Cycle Assessment of Sugar Palm Fiber Reinforced-Sago Biopolymer Composite Takeout Food Container

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In the development of packaging products, the considerations are not limited to the food shelf-life, safety, and practicality, but also environmental sustainability. This paper reports a life cycle assessment (LCA) analysis of a proposed natural fiber-reinforced biopolymer composite takeout food container. The study focuses on the damage assessment of the whole product system, including disposal scenarios of the thermoformed sugar palm fiber (SPF)-reinforced sago starch composite takeout food container. The analysis performed was to anticipate the environmental impact of the cradle-to-grave approach. The results exhibited the total human health damage of 2.63 × 10−5 DALY and ecosystem damage of 9.46 × 10−8 species.year per kg of containers. The main contributor was the carbon dioxide emission from fossil fuel combustion for energy generation that contributed to climate change and caused human health and the ecosystem damages with low-level metrics of 1.3 × 10−5 DALY and 7.39 × 10−8 species.yr per kg of containers, respectively. The most contributed substances in the ‘Particulate matter formation’ impact categories that caused respiratory diseases were from air/nitrogen oxides, air/particulates, <2.5 µm, and air/sulphur dioxide with the metrics of 2.93 × 10−6 DALY, 2.75 × 10−6 DALY, and 1.9 × 10−6 DALY per kg containers, correspondingly. Whereas, for the ‘Agricultural land occupation’, which contributed to ecosystem damage, almost the total contributions came from raw/occupation, forest, intensive with the metric of 1.93 × 10−9 species.yr per kg of containers. Nevertheless, from the results, all impact categories impacted below than 0.0001 DALY for the Human Health damage category and below 0.00001 species.yr for the ecosystem damage category. These results would provide important insights to companies and manufacturers in commercializing the fully biobased takeout food containers.

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“…Like petroleum-based plastics, most biopolymers are used by the packaging industry [4]. However, due to their function, they have a very short life span (on average a few weeks), which is why they become a waste in a short time [5,6]. In 2016, 16.7 million tonnes of plastic packaging waste was collected, of which 40.8% was recycled, 38.8% was used to generate energy (combustion), and 20.4% went to landfills [7].…”

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Application of LCA Method for Assessment of Environmental Impacts of a Polylactide (PLA) Bottle Shaping

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In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the consumption of single-use packaging. Their material diversity is a significant barrier to recycling, causing overloading of landfills. Increasing negative environmental aspects have highlighted the need to develop solutions to achieve a relatively high efficiency of the bottle shaping process with the lowest possible energy consumption. The aim of the project is to try to describe the impact of this process on the state, transformation and development of the natural environment. The work concerns current issues of the impact of packaging on the natural environment. The main goal was to conduct a life cycle analysis (LCA) of beverage bottles made of polylactide. The functional unit comprised a total of 1000 pieces of PLA bottles with a capacity of 1 L. The boundary of the adopted system included the steps from the delivery of the preforms to the production plant to their correct formation in the process of forming beverage bottles. Further stages of the production process were excluded from the system, such as beverage bottling, labeling, and storage and distribution. Processes related to transport and storage of raw material were also excluded. The LCA analysis was performed using the program of the Dutch company Pre Consultants called SimaPro 8.4.0. The ReCiPe 2016 method was chosen for the interpretation of the quantity of emitted substances into the natural environment. The test results were presented graphically on bar charts and subjected to verification and interpretation.

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Life Cycle Assessment of Bio‐Based Packaging Products

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Sapuan

Mastura

et al. 2021

Bio‐based Packaging

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LCA and Eco-design: Consequential and Attributional Approaches for Bio-based Plastics

Cited by 21 publications

References 20 publications

Life Cycle Assessment of Sugar Palm Fiber Reinforced-Sago Biopolymer Composite Takeout Food Container

Life Cycle Assessment of Sugar Palm Fiber Reinforced-Sago Biopolymer Composite Takeout Food Container

Application of LCA Method for Assessment of Environmental Impacts of a Polylactide (PLA) Bottle Shaping

Life Cycle Assessment of Bio‐Based Packaging Products

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