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The management of plastic packaging waste is advancing quickly, and new strategies are being implemented worldwide for better resource recovery. To assess the environmental benefits of new ways of handling plastic packaging waste, we need to first evaluate current waste management options in order t...
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ftdatacite:10.15488/15869 2024-02-27T08:41:43+00:00 Plastic Packaging Waste Management in Iceland: Challenges and Opportunities from a Life Cycle Assessment Perspective ... Ögmundarson, Ólafur Kalweit, Laura Sophie Venkatachalam, Venkateshwaran Kristjánsdóttir, Rakel Endres, Hans-Josef Spierling, Sebastian 2022 https://dx.doi.org/10.15488/15869 https://www.repo.uni-hannover.de/handle/123456789/15993 en eng Basel : MDPI Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 end-of-life Iceland life cycle assessment plastic packaging plastic waste management Dewey Decimal Classification300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie330 | Wirtschaft333 | Boden- und Energiewirtschaft333,7 | Natürliche Ressourcen, Energie und Umwelt Dewey Decimal Classification600 | Technik690 | Hausbau, Bauhandwerk article-journal ScholarlyArticle Text Article 2022 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.15488/15869 2024-02-01T15:33:08Z The management of plastic packaging waste is advancing quickly, and new strategies are being implemented worldwide for better resource recovery. To assess the environmental benefits of new ways of handling plastic packaging waste, we need to first evaluate current waste management options in order to create a basis for comparison. In this study, the environmental impacts of plastic packaging waste handling are assessed for the first time in Iceland using the life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology. The results show that mechanical recycling, despite including the impacts of exporting the waste to different European countries, has more environmental benefits than landfilling the waste in Iceland. Increasing the recycling rates of plastic waste in Iceland is also identified as a promising option from a resource efficiency perspective. With better waste sorting, Iceland can become more environmentally sustainable, ensuring that plastic materials land in recycling processes, and thereby enhancing the flow of ... Text Iceland DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Boden ENVELOPE(21.683,21.683,65.809,65.809) Dewey ENVELOPE(-64.320,-64.320,-65.907,-65.907) |
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The management of plastic packaging waste is advancing quickly, and new strategies are being implemented worldwide for better resource recovery. To assess the environmental benefits of new ways of handling plastic packaging waste, we need to first evaluate current waste management options in order to create a basis for comparison. In this study, the environmental impacts of plastic packaging waste handling are assessed for the first time in Iceland using the life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology. The results show that mechanical recycling, despite including the impacts of exporting the waste to different European countries, has more environmental benefits than landfilling the waste in Iceland. Increasing the recycling rates of plastic waste in Iceland is also identified as a promising option from a resource efficiency perspective. With better waste sorting, Iceland can become more environmentally sustainable, ensuring that plastic materials land in recycling processes, and thereby enhancing the flow of ... |
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Plastic Packaging Waste Management in Iceland: Challenges and Opportunities from a Life Cycle Assessment Perspective ... |
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