LCA Study and Environmental Benefits for Low Temperature Disinfection Process in Commercial Laundry (12 pp)

Do life-cycle costing and assessment integration support decision-making towards sustainable development?

“…First, there is a paucity of studies that examine LCC and LCA integration especially by using value chain, where previous studies either use LCC, or use LCA only, or combine their results for making decisions. For example, current research regularly focuses on a specific waste category, for example, infectious waste (Zhao et al, 2009) or specific procedures such as disinfection (Eberle et al, 2007). Studies modelling an integrated system LCC and LCA of hospital waste disposal are limited (Ali et al, 2016), especially in developing countries such as Egypt (Ahmad et al, 2019).…”

Application of life cycle assessment for hospital solid waste management: A case study

“…Studies on LCA of hospital waste are relatively few. Existing studies usually focus on a specific waste type such as infectious waste (Zhao et al, 2008) or specific procedures such as disinfection (Eberle et al, 2006), or services such as infant delivery (Campion et al, 2012), surgical operations (Thiel et al, 2015), or a specific health care product such as masks (Eckelman et al, 2012), thermometers (Gavilán-García et al, 2015), sharp containers (Grimmond and Reiner, 2012), bedpans (Sørensen and Wenzel, 2014), and so on. Studies modeling an integrated system of hospital waste disposal are limited in the scientific literature.…”

Biobased Natural Sapindus mukorossi–Carvacrol Emulsion for Sustainable Laundry Washing

“…In recent years, trends in the field of laundry washing have been focused on reducing washing temperature to <40 • C [7]. This approach can substantially reduce energy consumption but negatively impacts washing quality [8][9][10]. Studies show that the removal of soiling agents from textiles is temperature dependent [11,12], and low temperatures cannot assure a proper reduction in microorganisms [12,13].…”