Life Cycle Assessment of Waste Management: Are We Addressing the Key Challenges Ahead of Us?

Thomas Fruergaard Astrup; Kostyantyn Pivnenko; Marie Kampmann Eriksen; Alessio Boldrin

doi:10.1111/jiec.12811

Life Cycle Assessment of Waste Management: Are We Addressing the Key Challenges Ahead of Us?

Thomas Fruergaard Astrup, Kostyantyn Pivnenko, Marie Kampmann Eriksen, Alessio Boldrin

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Abstract

The environmental benefits quantified in waste LCA studies are often directly proportional to the amounts of waste materials routed to a particular recycling technology, whereas the specific composition, properties, and presence of targeted resources in the waste materials may not be fully addressed. This suggests that the actual efforts associated with recovering and recycling of resources in waste may not be fully reflected by current LCA modeling approaches.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Industrial Ecology
Volume	22
Issue number	5
Pages (from-to)	1000-1004
ISSN	1088-1980
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12811
Publication status	Published - 2018

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