Antelava, A;
Damilos, S;
Hafeez, S;
Manos, G;
Al-Salem, SM;
Sharma, BK;
Kohli, K;
(2019)
Plastic Solid Waste (PSW) in the Context of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Sustainable Management.
Environmental Management
10.1007/s00267-019-01178-3.
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Abstract
Over the past few decades, life cycle assessment (LCA) has been established as a critical tool for the evaluation of the environmental burdens of chemical processes and materials cycles. The increasing amount of plastic solid waste (PSW) in landfills has raised serious concern worldwide for the most effective treatment. Thermochemical post-treatment processes, such as pyrolysis, seem to be the most appropriate method to treat this type of waste in an effective manner. This is because such processes lead to the production of useful chemicals, or hydrocarbon oil of high calorific value (i.e. bio-oil in the case of pyrolysis). LCA appears to be the most appropriate tool for the process design from an environmental context. However, addressed limitations including initial assumptions, functional unit and system boundaries, as well as lack of regional database and exclusion of socio-economic aspects, may hinder the final decision. This review aims to address the benefits of pyrolysis as a method for PSW treatment and raise the limitations and gaps of conducted research via an environmental standpoint.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Plastic Solid Waste (PSW) in the Context of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Sustainable Management |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00267-019-01178-3 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-019-01178-3 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Keywords: | Pyrolysis, Plastics, Sustainable Management, Recycling, Energy, LCA |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Chemical Engineering |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10078555 |
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