Burnley, Stephen and Boardman, Carl
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Abstract
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is widely used to assess the environmental imapcts of different waste management processes and waste management systems, but the results of an LCA can be highly dependent on some of the initial assumptions made. Another problem with LCA is how long-term effects such as the sequestering of atmospheric carbon in landfills and the lifetime of methane in the atmosphere are handled. In this research a dynamic life cycle assessment (DLCA) approach was taken to address these issues. The results from an assessment of the treatment of waste newsprint by landfill, energy recovery and recycling showed that the results are broadly similar to those from conventional LCAs. There are still questions regarding the long-term impacts, but these issues, and the underlying assumptions made, are much more transparent.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2017 CISA Publisher |
| ISBN: | 88-6265-010-8, 978-88-6265-010-6 |
| ISSN: | 2282-0027 |
| Keywords: | dynamic life cycle assessment; waste newsprint; radiative forcing; landfill, energy from waste; recycling |
| Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Engineering and Innovation Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) |
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| Item ID: | 55849 |
| Depositing User: | Stephen Burnley |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Aug 2018 08:57 |
| Last Modified: | 02 May 2019 14:31 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/55849 |
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