Environmental impact of discarded apparel landfilling and recycling

Moazzem, Shadia; Wang, Lijing; Daver, Fügen; Crossin, Enda

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.105338

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“…This study addresses this research gap by applying an LCA methodology to assess the environmental impact of apparel consumption in Australia. LCA is a tool to assess environmental impacts from the entire life cycle of products or services [26], [27]. Life cycle assessment is widely used to study environmental impact of building materials, waste management, energy sector, supply chain etc., as well as evaluation of sustainability and the circular economy [28]- [30].…”

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Life Cycle Assessment of Apparel Consumption in Australia

Moazzem

Crossin

Daver

et al. 2021

Environmental and Climate Technologies

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This study presents the environmental impact of apparel consumption in Australia using life cycle assessment methodology according to ISO14040/14044:2006. Available published references, the Ecoinvent v3 dataset, the Australian life cycle assessment dataset and apparel country-wise import data with the breakdown of apparel type and fibre type were used in this study. The environmental impact assessment results of the functional unit were scaled up to the total apparel consumption. The impact results were also normalized on a per-capita/year basis. The Total Climate Change Potential (CCP) impact from apparel consumption of 2015 was estimated to be 16 607 028 tonnes CO2eq and 698.07 kg CO2eq/per capita-year. This study also assessed the impact of acidification potential (AP), water depletion (WD), abiotic resource depletion potential (ADP) - fossil fuel and agricultural land occupation (ALO) using the same methodology. The market volume of cotton apparel in Australia is 53.97 %, which accounts for 45 %, 96 %, 40 %, 46 % and 79 % of total CCP, WD, ADP, AP and ALO impact, respectively. Apparel broad categories of cotton shirt, cotton trouser, polyester shirt and polyester trouser have a high volume in the apparel market as well as a high environmental impact contribution. These high-volume apparel products can be included in the prioritization list to reduce environmental impact throughout the apparel supply chain. It was estimated that from 2010 to 2018 the per capita apparel consumption and corresponding impact increased by 24 %.

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Life Cycle Assessment of Apparel Consumption in Australia

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Daver

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“…Those impacts are expected to become more severe due to the increasing demands for textiles driven by a higher global income levels per-capita and shorter clothing utilization phases known as "fast fashion" [4]. Additionally, 73% or more of all textiles produced worldwide are either incinerated or landfilled at the end of their life [1,5,6]. In fact, today's textile industry is mostly of a linear nature (take-make-waste).…”

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Environmental Consequences of Closing the Textile Loop—Life Cycle Assessment of a Circular Polyester Jacket

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The textile industry is recognized as being one of the most polluting industries. Thus, the European Union aims to transform the textile industry with its “European Green Deal” and “Circular Economy Action Plan”. Awareness regarding the environmental impact of textiles is increasing and initiatives are appearing to make more sustainable products with a strong wish to move towards a circular economy. One of these initiatives is wear2wearTM, a collaboration consisting of multiple companies aiming to close the loop for polyester textiles. However, designing a circular product system does not lead automatically to lower environmental impacts. Therefore, a Life Cycle Assessment study has been conducted in order to compare the environmental impacts of a circular with a linear workwear jacket. The results show that a thoughtful “circular economy system” design approach can result in significantly lower environmental impacts than linear product systems. The study illustrates at the same time the necessity for Life Cycle Assessment practitioners to go beyond a simple comparison of one product to another when it comes to circular economy. Such products require a wider system analysis approach that takes into account multiple loops, having interconnected energy and material flows through reuse, remanufacture, and various recycling practices.

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“…ZWS is a concept aimed at resource recovery and the conservation of scarce natural resources, as waste is being diverted from landfills for permanent disposal. This strategy can be achieved by minimizing, composting, recycling, and reusing waste and modifying the ways in which people and businesses use limited resources; additionally, it urges businesses to product designing so that waste can be eliminated from manufacturing processes (Lombardi and Bailey 2015;Moazzem et al 2021). In addition, ZWS supports a circular economy (Kurniawan et al 2021), which can be defined as an economic structure aimed at the reduction of waste and the consistent recycling of energy (Cocker and Graham 2019).…”

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Yard waste prediction from estimated municipal solid waste using the grey theory to achieve a zero-waste strategy

Islam

Kabir

et al. 2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Yard waste is one of the key components of municipal solid waste and can play a vital role in implementing zero-waste strategy to achieve sustainable municipal solid waste management. Therefore, the objective of this study is to predict yard waste generation using the grey theory from the predicted municipal solid waste generation. The proposed model is implemented using municipal solid waste generation data from the City of Winnipeg, Canada. To identify the generation factors that influence municipal solid waste generation and yard waste generation, a correlation analysis is performed among eight socio-economic factors and six climatic factors. The GM (1, 1) model is utilized to predict individual factors with overall MAPE values of 0.06%−10.39% for the in-sample data, while the multivariable GM (1, N) grey model is employed to forecast the quarterly level of municipal solid waste generation with overall MAPE values of 5.64%−7.54%. In this study, grey models predict quarterly yard waste generation from the predicted municipal solid waste generation values using only twelve historical data points. The results indicate that the grey model (based on the error matrices) performs better than the linear and nonlinear regression-based models. The outcome of this study will support the City of Winnipeg's sustainable planning for yard waste management in terms of budgeting, resource allocation, and estimating energy generation.

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Environmental impact of discarded apparel landfilling and recycling

Cited by 72 publications

References 12 publications

Life Cycle Assessment of Apparel Consumption in Australia

Life Cycle Assessment of Apparel Consumption in Australia

Environmental Consequences of Closing the Textile Loop—Life Cycle Assessment of a Circular Polyester Jacket

Yard waste prediction from estimated municipal solid waste using the grey theory to achieve a zero-waste strategy

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