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Environmental and economic benefits of the recovery of materials in a municipal solid waste management system
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The comparison among the environmental performance of four considered scenarios showed that the higher the level of source separation was, the lower the overall impacts were, and this occurred because, even if the impacts of the waste collection and transport increased, they were overcome by the avoided impact of the recycling processes.Abstract:
The main aim of this study was to perform a Life cycle assessment study as well as an economic evaluation of the recovery of recyclable materials in a municipal solid waste management syste...read more
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Comparative Influences of Precipitation and River Stage on Groundwater Levels in Near-River Areas
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The environmental performance of alternative solid waste management options: a life cycle assessment study
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the life cycle assessment to assess the environmental performance of alternative solid waste management options that could be used in an area of the South of Italy suffering from a situation of weighty solid waste emergency.
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Environmental evaluation of plastic waste management scenarios
Lucia Rigamonti,Mario Grosso,Jacob Steen Møller,V. Martinez Sanchez,S. Magnani,Thomas Højlund Christensen +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors defined and modelled with a life cycle assessment approach using the EASEWASTE model five scenarios of different plastic waste recovery routes, including the baseline scenario (P0), where the plastic is treated as residual waste and routed partly to incineration with energy recovery and partly to mechanical biological treatment.