Combined material flow analysis and life cycle assessment as a support tool for solid waste management decision making

Turner, David A.; Williams, I.D.; Kemp, Simon

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.04.077

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“…A maior emissão de gases do efeito estufa ocorreu nos cenários com a disposição de resíduos em aterro sanitário Turner et al (2016) ACV: Avaliação do Ciclo de Vida; RSU: resíduos sólidos urbanos.…”

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Comparação de cenários de tratamento de resíduos sólidos urbanos por meio da técnica da Avaliação do Ciclo de Vida: o caso do município de Garibaldi, RS

Mersoni

Reichert

2017

Eng. Sanit. Ambient.

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Comparação de cenários de tratamento de resíduos sólidos urbanos por meio da técnica da Avaliação do Ciclo de Vida: o caso do município de Garibaldi, RS

Mersoni

Reichert

2017

Eng. Sanit. Ambient.

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“…Albano Laziale 8 Bucharest 9 Cremona 19 Leiria 13 Manresa 24 Pomezia 10 Sabadell 13 Torino 8 TOTAL 104 Manresa has the highest number of actions in its strategic plan (24), while Albano Laziale and Torino have the lowest number (8). Figure 3 shows, for each one of the pilot cities, both the existing measures implemented or allocated within the current policies (see also Table 1) and the new planned measures defined within the eight strategic plans.…”

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Including Urban Metabolism Principles in Decision-Making: A Methodology for Planning Waste and Resource Management

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Circular economy and urban metabolism concepts have recently received great attention both in the political and academic arenas, starting a roll-over process of the "take, make, and dispose" dominant economic model that is leading to an ongoing increase of resource consumption and waste generation. However, there is a relative lack of guidelines for introducing such concepts in a decision-making process able to support the design of appropriate policies and strategies and the definition of specific actions to cope with such challenges. This paper attempts to contribute to the recent efforts at incorporating these concepts in policy and decision-making processes by providing a methodology for the development of strategic plans for waste prevention and resource management. The proposed methodology, developed within the Urban_WINS project, combines different quantitative-analytical and qualitative methods and tools, together with a participatory process. The methodology was tested in eight EU cities and allowed to formulate several measures and actions aimed at addressing the challenges posed by the current consumption patterns. Moreover, the participatory approach led to the legitimization of the strategic plans, as well as to raise awareness among stakeholders. Although it might require specific tailor-made adjustments, this methodology is suitable to be replicated in other contexts.

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“…Similarly, recycling is often presented as automatically reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, yet the energy required for the reprocessing of recovered materials may or may not involve GHG emissions that justify the savings (Turner et al, 2015). For example, recycling a PET bottle provides a net benefit in GHG of 1.5 tonnes of CO 2 -e per tonne of recycled PET (Hopewell et al, 2009), whereas the recycling of paint was found to contribute more to GHG (86 kg CO 2 -e per tonne) compared to its primary production (Turner et al, 2016). A true CE must consider these multidimensional benefits and impacts at the system level, rather than just focus on perceived/theoretical benefits justified by single-dimension approaches.…”

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“…the shortening of fibres during paper recycling). Technical values may also interact with economic values, such as the market substitution ratio which reflects the ability of the market to substitute an amount of primary material with its secondary counterpart of a given technical quality (Turner et al, 2016).…”

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A pathway to circular economy: Developing a conceptual framework for complex value assessment of resources recovered from waste

Iacovidou

Millward-Hopkins

Busch

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Journal of Cleaner Production

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a b s t r a c tThe transition to a circular economy, where the value of resources is preserved in the technosphere, must be supported by policies and operational decision-making based on evidence. Existing methods used to provide this evidence (e.g. LCA, LCSA, CBA) are not robust enough to adequately address the creation and dissipation of systemic and multidimensional value that spans the social, environmental, economic and technical domains. This study proposes a novel, conceptual approach that seeks to assess how complex value is created, destroyed and distributed in resource recovery from waste systems. This approach expands beyond conventional methods of estimating value. It combines scientific and engineering methods with a socio-political narrative grounded in the systems of provision (sop) approach, and provides a comprehensive, analytical framework for making the transition to a resource-efficient future. This framework has the potential to connect bottom-up and top-down approaches in assessing resource recovery from waste systems, and address systemic challenges through transparency and flexibility, while accounting for the dynamic and non-linear nature of commodities flow and infrastructure provision in the overall system. This creates the pathway towards circular economy, and lays the foundations for future advances in computational and assessment methodologies in the field of RRfW. Crown

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Combined material flow analysis and life cycle assessment as a support tool for solid waste management decision making

Cited by 139 publications

References 63 publications

Comparação de cenários de tratamento de resíduos sólidos urbanos por meio da técnica da Avaliação do Ciclo de Vida: o caso do município de Garibaldi, RS

Comparação de cenários de tratamento de resíduos sólidos urbanos por meio da técnica da Avaliação do Ciclo de Vida: o caso do município de Garibaldi, RS

Including Urban Metabolism Principles in Decision-Making: A Methodology for Planning Waste and Resource Management

A pathway to circular economy: Developing a conceptual framework for complex value assessment of resources recovered from waste

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