Using Life Cycle Assessment to Compare Environmental Impacts of Different Waste to Energy Options for Sao Paulo's Municipal Solid Waste

Sequential Methodology for the Selection of Municipal Waste Treatment Alternatives Applied to a Case Study in Chile

“…Thus, as a disadvantage, they present the highest technological complexity. In accordance with other authors [24,74], the incineration scenario has the highest power generation capacity. Ref.…”

Life Cycle Assessment of current and prospective waste management systems in Brazil

“…This comparison between three different sets (categories) of systems provides an overview of the current and alternative technology-centric waste management alternatives for Previous LCAs have addressed different treatment possibilities for specific MSW streams, such as mixed waste (Leme et al, 2014;Lima et al, 2018;Mendes et al, 2004;Soares, 2017), as well as biodegradable and recyclable streams (e.g. Bernstad Saraiva et al, 2017;Lima et al, 2018a).…”

“…Secondly, compared to Europe or Asia, WtE does not bring significant environmental savings to the system by energy production, due to the big share of renewable sources in the electricity matrix of Brazil (Goulart Coelho & Lange, 2018;Liikanen et al, 2018;P. D. M. Lima et al, 2018;F. R. Soares, 2017) In addition, from a social perspective, WtE does not create work places in the same way as MBT. WtE requires relatively few specialized operator positions, whereas MBT can be labour intensive and could incorporate many more low skilled workers (sorting positions), as well as specialized positions to operate the various mechanical sorting and biological treatment operations.…”