To transport waste or transport recycling plant: Insights from life-cycle analysis

Grimaud, Guilhem; Laratte, Bertrand

doi:10.1051/mattech/2018016

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“…LCC has a consistent methodology with LCA and includes conventional [44,45], environmental [45,46,47,48] or/and societal [45,49] variants. Some studies on waste management field are remarkable including more LCC variants [45] or linking both LCA and LCC tools [e. g. 45,50].…”

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Models for Life Cycle Assessment: Review of Technical Assumptions in Collection and Transportation Processes

2019

Teh. vjesn.

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Since the early 1990s, the life cycle assessment (LCA) has been used to quantify the environmental impacts. Due to substantial dissimilarities in results among different LCA waste models, the aim of this review is to analyse different LCA models. Technical assumptions in collection and transportation processes among the models in connection with lifecycle inventory (LCI) databases of inputs and outputs have been compared and reviewed. The most important inputs and outputs in LCI have been analysed. The mechanistic LCA models have been found to operate with more substantial and broader inputs and outputs than deterministic models; therefore, they represent a detailed presentation and a more suitable basis for further calculations, e.g., life cycle costing (LCC) of waste management. Nevertheless, the analysed mechanistic models do not include determined important time consumptions-this was exposed and missing data provided. The final findings are that future LCA models should: (1) include alternative fuels for transportation and bioplastic materials for collection equipment, (2) use mechanistic principles, (3) build detailer LCI data bases, (4) be linked with LCC modelling, (5) use bottom-up approach calculations and provide both environmental and economical point of view.

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Models for Life Cycle Assessment: Review of Technical Assumptions in Collection and Transportation Processes

2019

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“…While LCA methods are specific and tailored to a given system, examining analyses of metal chalcogenides and related green nanoparticle systems through metrics-based assessments can inform the design of transition metal chalcogenide nanoparticles and help mitigate unwanted impacts [22,25,26]. Researchers may look to blend their own experimental data with literature data to support claims of innovation or sustainability with quantitative analyses using a life cycle approach towards making and using nanoparticulate matter [27][28][29]. Life Cycle Assessment touches on many of the principles of green chemistry and specifically principles 1, 4, 6, and 10.…”

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Green Chemistry Applied to Transition Metal Chalcogenides through Synthesis, Design of Experiments, Life Cycle Assessment, and Machine Learning

Pinto¹,

Cho²,

Oliynyk³

et al. 2022

Green Chemistry - New Perspectives

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Transition metal chalcogenides (TMC) is a broad class of materials comprising binary, ternary, quaternary, and multinary oxides, sulfides, selenides, and tellurides. These materials have application in different areas such as solar cells, photocatalysis, sensors, photoinduced therapy, and fluorescent labeling. Due to the technological importance of this class of material, it is necessary to find synthetic methods to produce them through procedures aligned with the Green Chemistry. In this sense, this chapter presents opportunities to make the solution chemistry synthesis of TMC greener. In addition to synthesis, the chapter presents different techniques of experimental planning and analysis, such as design of experiments, life cycle assessment, and machine learning. Then, it explains how Green Chemistry can benefit from each one of these techniques, and how they are related to the Green Chemistry Principles. Focus is placed on binary chalcogenides (sulfides, selenides, and tellurides), and the quaternary sulfide Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS), due to its application in many fields like solar energy, photocatalysis, and water splitting. The Green Chemistry synthesis, characterization, and application of these materials may represent sustainable and effective ways to save energy and resources without compromising the quality of the produced material.

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“…Based on these results from environmental evaluations, MTB implemented corrective measures to increase its environmental performance level [13]. Beyond optimizing recycling pathways in operation, these results also helped us to guide the research for new recycling processes which have been designed to be more sustainable [14]. All these steps help to enrich the company's own knowledge, but the evaluation process is long and requires strong stakeholder involvement at each assessment step.…”

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Sustainability Performance Evaluation for Selecting the Best Recycling Pathway During Its Design Phase

Grimaud

Perry

Laratte

2018

Designing Sustainable Technologies, Products and Policies

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As the end of life products are becoming more and more complex, the recycling systems encountered many difficulties in valuing all the materials contained in each product. This involves not only recovering a large number of materials but also doing so with the minimal environmental impact. Although the benefits of recycling are well established, the industrial processes need to be designed in regard with their environmental impacts. Therefore recyclers need robust assessment tools to make the right choices during the design of recycling processes. This approach should enable them to choose the right recycling solutions for a wide range of end of life products. In this article, we present a methodology developped for evaluating the performance of recycling processes during their design phase. This methodology is our answer to help the optimisation of the recycling of multi materials products based on the evaluation of the sustainability performance of the processes chosen.

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To transport waste or transport recycling plant: Insights from life-cycle analysis

Cited by 6 publications

References 22 publications

Models for Life Cycle Assessment: Review of Technical Assumptions in Collection and Transportation Processes

Models for Life Cycle Assessment: Review of Technical Assumptions in Collection and Transportation Processes

Green Chemistry Applied to Transition Metal Chalcogenides through Synthesis, Design of Experiments, Life Cycle Assessment, and Machine Learning

Sustainability Performance Evaluation for Selecting the Best Recycling Pathway During Its Design Phase

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