Life cycle assessment of wood-plastic composites: Analysing alternative materials and identifying an environmental sound end-of-life option

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• 作者：Philipp F. Sommerhuber^a ; ^{philipp.sommerhuber@thuenen.de} ; Jan L. Wenker^a ; ^{jan.wenker@thuenen.de} ; Sebastian Rü ; ter^a ; ^{sebastian.rueter@thuenen.de} ; Andreas Krause^b ; ^{andreas.krause@uni-hamburg.de}
• 关键词：Life cycle assessment ; Wood-plastic composites ; Resource efficiency ; Circular economy ; End-of-life ; Waste management
• 刊名：Resources, Conservation and Recycling
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：117
• 期：part_PB
• 页码：235-248
• 全文大小：2322 K
• 卷排序：117

文摘

Environmental impacts of upstream and downstream of WPC were analysed by LCA methods. Substitution potentials of alternative materials for WPC were addressed. Recycling was found to be the favourable end-of-life of WPC. This is in contrast to the applied disposal pathway of WPC today.