Improving the production chain with LCA and eco-design: application to cosmetic packaging

Civancik-Uslu, Didem; Puig, Rita; Voigt, Stephan; Walter, Dirk; Fullana–i–Palmer, Pere

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.104475

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“…On the one hand, the use of recycled materials palliates the inflation on prices of virgin raw materials. On the other hand, the use of recycled materials implies less energy consumption [ 49 ], independence or lower dependence from oil and reduces the amount of landfilled oil-based materials [ 50 ]. In addition, recycling plastic materials by preparing composites containing other materials, such as the case of BF, contributes to the control and inertization of residues with potential risk to the environment and human health.…”

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Leather Waste to Enhance Mechanical Performance of High-Density Polyethylene

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Leather buffing dust (BF) is a waste from tannery which is usually disposed on landfills. The interest in using wastes as fillers or reinforcements for composites has raised recently due to environmental concerns. This study investigates the potential use of BF waste as filler for a high density polyethylene matrix (HDPE). A series of HDPE-BF composites, containing filler concentrations ranging from 20 to 50wt%, were formulated, injection molded and tested. The effect of filler contents on the mechanical properties of the composites were evaluated and discussed. Composites with BF contents up to 30wt% improved the tensile strength and Young’s modulus of the matrix, achieving similar mechanical properties to polypropylene (PP). In the case of flexural strength, it was found to be proportionally enhanced by increasing reinforcement content, maintaining high impact strength. These composites present great opportunities for PP application areas that require higher impact resistance. The materials were submitted to a series of closed-loop recycling cycles in order to assess their recyclability, being able to maintain better tensile strength than virgin HDPE after 5 cycles. The study develops new low-cost and sustainable composites by using a waste as composite filler.

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“… [ 27 ] X Thermochemical conversion from landfill. [ 33 ] X Product design & eco-design packaging [ 35 ] X X Single-use tableware. [ 50 ] X Agricultural polymer container pesticide residue.…”

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“…Articles of product design include topics such as single use feeding bottles [ 122 ], plastic food packaging development 231], biodegradable plastic product design [ 127 ], and product policy and design measures of information and communication technologies (ICT) [ 161 ]. Product design and eco-design packaging replaces eucalyptus wood sheets with plastic compound alternatives composed of virgin and recycled PP [ 33 ]. Other articles focus on cotton polyester textile recycling to produce a novel cellulose fibre [ 89 ].…”

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Bibliographic mapping of post-consumer plastic waste based on hierarchical circular principles across the system perspective

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The current dominating production and consumption model is based on the linear economy (LE) model, within which raw materials are extracted-processed-consumed-discarded. A circular economy (CE) constitutes a regenerative systemic approach to economic development which views waste as a valuable resource to be reprocessed back into the economy. In order to understand the circular strategy for a systemic change from an LE to a CE as a means of resolving the issue of plastic waste, this research aims to map current circular strategy trends across the system perspective contained in the literature relating to plastic CE literature. The novelty of the research lies in the mapping and review of the distribution of comprehensive circular strategies within the 9R framework across the entire system perspective (e.g. micro-meso-macro) down to its sub-levels in the literature on a plastic CE. The bibliographic mapping and systematic literature review iindicateed that the majority of the research focused on recycle (R8), followed by refuse (R0), reuse (R3), and reduce (R2). Certain circular strategies are more appropriate to handling certain plastic materials, despite CE's favoring of prevention and recycling over incineration. Recover (R9) is often used to process mixed and contaminated plastic. Recycling (R8) is the most popular circular strategy and the most applicable to plastic material with three recycle trends, namely; mechanical recycling, chemical recycling and DRAM (Distributed-Recycling-and-Additive-Manufacturing). Prolonging the product life through refurbishing (R5) is not applicable to plastic due to its material limitations. Reduce (R2) popularity as circular strategy reflects the preference to reduce consumption, either by launching campaigns to prevent waste or increasing production efficiency. Research on Rethink (R1) has largely focused on rethinking product design, consumer and organization behavior and perceptions of CE. Refuse (R0) strategy is an adoption of bio-based plastics which have a similar function to fossil-based plastics.

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“…Many methods and tools have been developed to support sustainable product design. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is most often used [38][39][40][41], which is a framework for calculating the environmental impacts of a product or service along its life cycle [42]. However, LCA methods are more suitable to be implemented at later design phases, as it often requires a large amount of data while the design of a product is more defined, of which materials, components, and processes are specified [43,44].…”

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Although products can contribute to ecosystems positively, they can cause negative environmental impacts throughout their life cycles, from obtaining raw material, production, and use, to end of life. It is reported that most negative environmental impacts are decided at early design phases, which suggests that the determination of product sustainability should be considered as early as possible, such as during the conceptual design stage, when it is still possible to modify the design concept. However, most of the existing concept evaluation methods or tools are focused on assessing the feasibility or creativity of the concepts generated, lacking the measurements of sustainability of concepts. The paper explores key factors related to sustainable design with regard to environmental impacts, and describes a set of objective measures of sustainable product design concept evaluation, namely, material, production, use, and end of life. The rationales of the four metrics are discussed, with corresponding measurements. A case study is conducted to demonstrate the use and effectiveness of the metrics for evaluating product design concepts. The paper is the first study to explore the measurement of product design sustainability focusing on the conceptual design stage. It can be used as a guideline to measure the level of sustainability of product design concepts to support designers in developing sustainable products. Most significantly, it urges the considerations of sustainability design aspects at early design phases, and also provides a new research direction in concept evaluation regarding sustainability.

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Improving the production chain with LCA and eco-design: application to cosmetic packaging

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Cited by 67 publications

References 34 publications

Leather Waste to Enhance Mechanical Performance of High-Density Polyethylene

Leather Waste to Enhance Mechanical Performance of High-Density Polyethylene

Bibliographic mapping of post-consumer plastic waste based on hierarchical circular principles across the system perspective

Metrics for Measuring Sustainable Product Design Concepts

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