Comparative LCAs for Curbside Recycling Versus Either Landfilling or Incineration with Energy Recovery (12 pp)

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• 作者：Jeffrey Morris
• 关键词：combustion ; emissions valuation ; energy conservation ; incineration ; landfill ; LCA ; LCI ; lifecycle ; pollutant valuation ; recycling ; pollution prevention ; resource conservation ; waste ; to ; energy
• 刊名：The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
• 出版年：2005
• 出版时间：July 2005
• 年：2005
• 卷：10
• 期：4
• 页码：273-284
• 全文大小：2,349 KB
• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：Environment
  Environment
  Environmental Economics
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1614-7502

文摘

Background This article describes two projects conducted recently by Sound Resource Management (SRMG) – one for the San Luis Obispo County Integrated Waste Management Authority (SLO IWMA) and the other for the Washington State Department of Ecology (WA Ecology). For both projects we used life cycle assessment (LCA) techniques to evaluate the environmental burdens associated with collection and management of municipal solid waste. Both projects compared environmental burdens from curbside collection for recycling, processing, and market shipment of recyclable materials picked up from households and/or businesses against environmental burdens from curbside collection and disposal of mixed solid waste.