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Decision-making support system based on LCA for aseptic packaging recycling.
- Source :
- Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy; Sep2012, Vol. 30 Issue 9, p931-939, 9p
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- In Europe post-consumer beverage carton packages are treated in three ways: dumped in a landfill, incinerated for energy recovery, and recycled. In recent years new technologies for beverage carton recycling have been developed and tested. At the same time in Europe the collection of second-hand raw materials is becoming more efficient. In order to facilitate and justify the decision-making process, different possibilities of poly-aluminium handling were analysed. For this reason, the objective of this study was to compare carbon footprints in the whole life cycle of selected technologies and to provide decision-making with data for beverage carton recycling. The paper is based on some of the results of the project ‘Sustainable Production through Innovations in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SPIN)’. The SPIN project is providing small- and medium-sized enterprises with a whole set of instruments that put entrepreneurs in a position to innovate their production processes and products leading to improved business and public benefits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0734242X
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 78943416
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0734242X12448519