Transitions of municipal solid waste management. Part II: Hybrid life cycle assessment of Swiss glass-packaging disposal

Grégoire, Marilaure; Ami, Helen; Spoerri, Andy

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2014.01.005

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“…A survey of stakeholder views on six scenarios of Swiss waste glass‐packaging disposal in 2020 was conducted online to identify potential conflicts between stakeholder interests and the performance of scenarios with respect to environmental impacts and gross value added in Switzerland. The latter eco‐efficiency metrics were informed by means of LCA (Meylan et al , ). Besides desirability, N = 85 stakeholders of Swiss waste glass‐packaging disposal assessed the probability of scenarios’ occurrence to identify stakeholders’ perceived barriers to transitions other than opposing interests.…”

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“…In S1, S4, S5, and S6, foam glass is no longer produced in Switzerland. All scenarios were the object of an LCA‐based eco‐efficiency assessment to appraise their environmental and economic impacts (Meylan et al ). Increases and reductions of environmental impacts, compared to the current system (reference year 2009), were aggregated according to the Ecological Scarcity Method 2006 (Frischknecht et al ).…”

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“…This impact assessment method was chosen because it was developed for the Swiss EPA. Though it does not follow the ISO standard (ISO ), that is, aggregates environmental impacts directly to a single score instead of midpoint indicators, Meylan and colleagues () performed a sensitivity analysis with an impact assessment method complying with this standard. Gains and losses of gross value added in Switzerland, compared to the current system, served as the indicator of economic impacts of scenarios.…”

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Identifying Stakeholders’ Views on the Eco‐efficiency Assessment of a Municipal Solid Waste Management System

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Stauffacher²,

Krütli³

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J of Industrial Ecology

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Life cycle assessment (LCA) is one of the most popular methods of technical-environmental assessment for informing environmental policies, as, for instance, in municipal solid waste (MSW) management. Because MSW management involves many stakeholders with possibly conflicting interests, the implementation of an LCA-based policy can, however, be blocked or delayed. A stakeholder assessment of future scenarios helps identify conflicting interests and anticipate barriers of sustainable MSW management systems. This article presents such an approach for Swiss waste glass-packaging disposal, currently undergoing a policy review. In an online survey, stakeholders (N = 85) were asked to assess disposal scenarios showing different LCA-based eco-efficiencies with respect to their desirability and probability of occurrence. Scenarios with higher eco-efficiency than the current system are more desirable and considered more probable than those with lower eco-efficiency. A combination of inland recycling and downcycling to foam glass (insulation material) in Switzerland is desired by all stakeholders and is more eco-efficient than the current system. In contrast, institutions of MSW management, such as national and regional environmental protection agencies, judge a scenario in which nearly all cullet would be recycled in the only Swiss glass-packaging factory as more desirable than supply and demand stakeholders of waste glass-packaging. Such a scenario involves a monopsony rejected by many municipalities and scrap traders. Such an assessment procedure can provide vital information guiding the formulation of environmental policies. Keywords:eco-efficiency glass-packaging life cycle assessment (LCA) municipal solid waste (MSW) stakeholder transition management Supporting information is available on the JIE Web site

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“…The manufacturing of new glass‐based materials may be seen as the ultimate opportunity for open‐loop recycling and has an undoubted environmental benefit compared with landfilling, as confirmed by recent LCA studies. Meylan et al assessed several scenarios of Swiss waste glass‐packaging disposal and found that the local production of glass foams, for thermal and acoustic insulation, is not only an environmentally sound disposal option (compared even with the production of extruded polystyrene, widely used for the same applications), but it also buffers gross value added losses, in case domestic recycling (and thus glass‐packaging production in Switzerland) ceases in the future. Rocchetti and Beolchini, as a second example, recently showed the sustainability of several open‐loop recycling technologies for CRT glasses …”

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“…It is not surprising, as a consequence, that glass cullet should be considered also is in a condition of 'open loop recycling', i.e. re-use in articles different from the original ones, also termed 'downcycling', 19 starting from the production of traditional ceramics. 16 For common soda-lime glass a significant fraction enriched in contaminants remains practically unemployed, and is mostly landfilled.…”

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Recycling of inorganic waste in monolithic and cellular glass‐based materials for structural and functional applications

Rincón

Marangoni

Çetin

et al. 2016

J of Chemical Tech & Biotech

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The stabilization of inorganic waste of various nature and origin, in glasses, has been a key strategy for environmental protection for the last decades. When properly formulated, glasses may retain many inorganic contaminants permanently, but it must be acknowledged that some criticism remains, mainly concerning costs and energy use. As a consequence, the sustainability of vitrification largely relies on the conversion of waste glasses into new, usable and marketable glass‐based materials, in the form of monolithic and cellular glass‐ceramics. The effective conversion in turn depends on the simultaneous control of both starting materials and manufacturing processes. While silica‐rich waste favours the obtainment of glass, iron‐rich wastes affect the functionalities, influencing the porosity in cellular glass‐based materials as well as catalytic, magnetic, optical and electrical properties. Engineered formulations may lead to important reductions of processing times and temperatures, in the transformation of waste‐derived glasses into glass‐ceramics, or even bring interesting shortcuts. Direct sintering of wastes, combined with recycled glasses, as an example, has been proven as a valid low‐cost alternative for glass‐ceramic manufacturing, for wastes with limited hazardousness. The present paper is aimed at providing an up‐to‐date overview of the correlation between formulations, manufacturing technologies and properties of most recent waste‐derived, glass‐based materials. © 2016 The Authors. Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society of Chemical Industry.

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Enabling Circular Economy: The Overlooked Role of Inorganic Materials Chemistry

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Transitions of municipal solid waste management. Part II: Hybrid life cycle assessment of Swiss glass-packaging disposal

Cited by 26 publications

References 62 publications

Identifying Stakeholders’ Views on the Eco‐efficiency Assessment of a Municipal Solid Waste Management System

Identifying Stakeholders’ Views on the Eco‐efficiency Assessment of a Municipal Solid Waste Management System

Recycling of inorganic waste in monolithic and cellular glass‐based materials for structural and functional applications

Enabling Circular Economy: The Overlooked Role of Inorganic Materials Chemistry

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