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Environmental and human health impact assessment of major interior wall decorative materials
- Source :
- Frontiers of Engineering Management. 6:406-415
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019.
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Abstract
- Despite the growing interest in green products in the interior wall decorative material market, knowledge gaps exist because determining which product is more environmental and user friendly than the others is difficult. This work assesses the environmental and human health profiles of interior latex and wallpaper. Two interior latex products of different raw material ratios and one non-woven wallpaper product are considered. The environmental impact assessment follows life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology and applies Building Environmental Performance Analysis System (BEPAS). The human health impact is based on impact-pathway chain and is performed using Building Health Impact Analysis System (BHIAS). The assessment scope, associated emissions, and territorial scope of various emissions are defined to facilitate comparison study of interior wall decorative products. The impacts are classified into 15 categories belonging to three safeguard areas: ecological environment, natural resources, and human health. The impacts of categories are calculated and monetized using willingness to pay (WTP) and disability-adjusted life year (DALY) and summarized as an integrated external cost of environmental and human health impacts. Assessment results reveal that the integrated impact of interior latex is lower than that of non-woven wallpaper, and the interior latex of low quality causes low life cycle integrated impact. The most impacted categories are global warming, respiratory effects, and water consumption. Hotspots of product manufacturing are recognized to promote green product design.
- Subjects :
- 050210 logistics & transportation
Scope (project management)
business.industry
Impact assessment
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05 social sciences
Environmental resource management
02 engineering and technology
Natural resource
020401 chemical engineering
Willingness to pay
0502 economics and business
Quality (business)
Environmental impact assessment
Product (category theory)
0204 chemical engineering
business
Life-cycle assessment
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Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20960255 and 20957513
- Volume :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Frontiers of Engineering Management
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........0e71099770a5820e6a82e2a652a19d52