Emmanuel Gentil

TL;DR: A critical review of 222 published LCA studies of SWMS found that there is little agreement in the conclusions among them and recommend stakeholders in solid waste management to regard LCA as a tool, which allows identifying critical problems and proposing improvement options adapted to the local specificities.

TL;DR: Results show that malpractices exist in several aspects of the LCA with large differences across studies and detailed recommendations are provided to practitioners of waste management LCAs.

TL;DR: This paper is an attempt to identify, review and analyse methodologies and technical assumptions used in various parts of selected waste LCA models, and concludes that more effort should be employed to harmonise and validate non-geographic assumptions to strengthen waste L CA modelling.

TL;DR: A simplified model of carbon flows is presented for the waste management system and the surrounding industries, represented by the pulp and paper manufacturing industry, the forestry industry and the energy industry, showing that criteria for assigning global warming contributions are partly linked to the system boundary conditions.

TL;DR: Clear evidence of the environmental benefits of waste prevention is provided and has specific relevance in climate change mitigation.