Collaborative activity with business partners for improvement of product environmental performance using LCA

Nakano, Katsuyuki; Hirao, Masahiko

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2011.03.007

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“…MFCA development models and their application have been proposed in the following nine articles: life cycle assessment (LCA) and supply chain collaboration model (Nakano and Hirao, 2011); enterprise resource planning systems and MFCA (Fakoya and Van Der Poll, 2013); fit thinking based on the all seeing-eye-of-business (Bautista-Lazo and Short, 2013); a mathematical algorithm for MFCA with two examples (an aluminum rolling mill and an internal material cycle in a production system) (Schmidt, 2015); an integrated waste flow mapping method (Kurdve et al, 2015); a procedural model for the integrated use of life cycle costing and LCA (Bierer et al, 2015); MFCA and design of experiments concepts (Chompu-Inwai et al, 2015); extending the scope of MFCA concerning the modeling of energy flow ; a modified MFCA model for an iron and steel enterprise (Zhou et al, 2017); and the prioritization of waste recovery with consideration of hidden costs embedded in process streams (Wan et al, 2015).…”

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Corporate material flow management in Thailand: The way to material flow cost accounting

Yagi

Kokubu

2018

Journal of Cleaner Production

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In recent years, material flow cost accounting (MFCA) has gradually been recognized in Asia by the standardization of ISO 14051 and 14052 and by the project of dissemination undertaken by the Asian Productivity Organization (APO). However, MFCA is still not used across the board. This study analyzes the characteristics of material flow (MF) management to facilitate the expanded use of MFCA. The research framework of this study investigates the degree of MF management and the sequential relationships among financial factors, MF management, and waste performance, based on a questionnaire survey of non-financial listed companies in Thailand. Fifty-eight percent of the respondent firms answer that they are managing MF information (self-rating). Meanwhile, 50%, 49%, 29%, and 24% of the firms actually disclose the amounts of total waste, hazardous waste, raw materials consumed, and recycled waste, respectively. The results of this study show that respondent firms with MF management (self-rating) are more likely to manage/disclose total waste, hazardous waste, and raw materials consumed than those without it. In terms of financial factors, cost ratio and profitability are likely to affect firm decisions regarding whether to manage the MF. Additionally, MF management is likely to decrease the hazardous waste ratio. The series of results shows that firms in Thailand are more likely to be concerned about hazardous waste management than resource efficiency. Therefore, hazardous waste should probably be thoroughly managed, as a preliminary step in the promotion of MFCA.

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confidence: 99%

Corporate material flow management in Thailand: The way to material flow cost accounting

Yagi

Kokubu

2018

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Nowadays, many companies have been practicing environmentally conscious design and manufacturing to tackle environmental issues by LCA (Zutshi and Sohal, 2004;Nakano and Hirao, 2011). Moreover, the use of LCA in environmental management and sustainability has grown in recent years as evidenced by the steadily increasing number of published papers and case studies on LCA methodology (Notarnicola et al, 2012).…”

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Incorporating life cycle external cost in optimization of the electricity generation mix

Rentizelas

Georgakellos

2014

Energy Policy

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The present work aims to examine the strategic decision of future electricity generation mix considering, together with all other factors, the effect of the external cost associated with the available power generation technology options, not only during their operation but also during their whole life-cycle. The analysis has been performed by integrating the Life Cycle Assessment concept into a linear programming model for the yearly decisions on which option should be used to minimise the electricity generation cost. The model has been applied for the case of Greece for the years 2012-2050 and has led to several interesting results. Firstly, most of the new generating capacity should be renewable (mostly biomass and wind), while natural gas is usually the only conventional fuel technology chosen. If externalities are considered, wind energy increases its share and hydro-power replaces significant amounts of biomass-generated energy. Furthermore, a sensitivity analysis has been performed. One of the most important findings is that natural gas increases its contribution when externalities are increased. Summing-up, external cost has been found to be a significant percentage of the total electricity generation cost for some energy sources, therefore significantly changing the ranking order of cost-competitiveness for the energy sources examined.

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“…Afterwards, MFCA is a technique for measuring the cost of a production process in both physical and monetary units [14] [15] and for estimating room for cost reduction in each process. It is a technique for visualizing process costs including material, energy, system, and waste costs as a positive product cost and negative product cost (loss cost) on the basis of process yield [16].…”

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Preliminary Design of Eco-City by Using Industrial Symbiosis and Waste Co-Processing Based on MFA, LCA, and MFCA of Cement Industry in Indonesia

Ulhasanah¹,

Goto²

2012

IJESD

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Abstract-Cement Company in a city in Indonesia is taken as a case study in this study which its production process system was evaluated by material flow analysis, life cycle assessment, and material flow cost accounting. The cement company is the biggest company in the city which makes the company has substantial influence of the city's economy, society and environment. This study was aimed to propose the new system design of cement production as a preliminary design of eco-city by industrial symbiosis that involves many elements inside and outside the city in order to establish the cement production sustainability in Indonesia. The scope of this study is all activities inside the company, from raw material extraction until the product packaging process. Several problems are detected faced by the cement company such as limitation of limestone reserve, CO 2 emission, high energy consumption, cement kiln dust, dust emission, several diseases, and others related to cost, social, and environmental aspects. If the company keeps this system on, it will harm the environment, human health, even affects the company's income. Therefore, the new system proposal which is selected from several scenarios is needed to embody the sustainable development.Index Terms-Material flow analysis, life cycle assessment, material flow cost accounting, cement kiln dust.

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Collaborative activity with business partners for improvement of product environmental performance using LCA

Cited by 105 publications

References 47 publications

Corporate material flow management in Thailand: The way to material flow cost accounting

Corporate material flow management in Thailand: The way to material flow cost accounting

Incorporating life cycle external cost in optimization of the electricity generation mix

Preliminary Design of Eco-City by Using Industrial Symbiosis and Waste Co-Processing Based on MFA, LCA, and MFCA of Cement Industry in Indonesia

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