Life cycle assessment of wastewater treatment in developing countries: a review

A Gallego-Schmid, RRZ Tarpani - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Within developing countries, wastewater treatment (WWT) has improved in recent years but
remains a high priority sustainability challenge. Accordingly, life cycle assessment (LCA) …

Mineral resources in life cycle impact assessment—part I: a critical review of existing methods

T Sonderegger, M Berger, R Alvarenga, V Bach… - … International Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Purpose The safeguard subject of the Area of Protection “natural Resources,” particularly
regarding mineral resources, has long been debated. Consequently, a variety of life cycle …

Reducing food's environmental impacts through producers and consumers

J Poore, T Nemecek - Science, 2018 - science.org
Food's environmental impacts are created by millions of diverse producers. To identify
solutions that are effective under this heterogeneity, we consolidated data covering five …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental assessment of additive manufacturing in the automotive industry

D Böckin, AM Tillman - Journal of cleaner production, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract 3D-printing, also known as Additive Manufacturing (AM), is an emerging technology
with suggested potential to decrease environmental impacts in the manufacturing industry …

[PDF][PDF] Development of a weighting approach for the Environmental Footprint

S Sala, AK Cerutti, R Pant - Publications Office of the …, 2018 - eplca.jrc.ec.europa.eu
Abstract In Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), according to ISO 14044 (ISO 2006), normalisation
and weighting are optional steps of Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA). Those steps allow …

Life cycle assessment of pyrolysis, gasification and incineration waste-to-energy technologies: Theoretical analysis and case study of commercial plants

J Dong, Y Tang, A Nzihou, Y Chi… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Municipal solid waste (MSW) pyrolysis and gasification are in development, stimulated by a
more sustainable waste-to-energy (WtE) option. Since comprehensive comparisons of the …

[PDF][PDF] LCIA methods

AP Acero, C Rodríguez, A Ciroth - … in Life Cycle Assessment and their …, 2016 - openlca.org
The availability of diverse sources for life cycle inventory databases and Life Cycle Impact
Assessment (LCIA) methods should be an asset to better perform life cycle assessment …

An environmental assessment system for environmental technologies

J Clavreul, H Baumeister, TH Christensen… - … modelling & software, 2014 - Elsevier
A new model for the environmental assessment of environmental technologies, EASETECH,
has been developed. The primary aim of EASETECH is to perform life-cycle assessment …

Life cycle assessment Part 2: Current impact assessment practice

DW Pennington, J Potting, G Finnveden… - Environment …, 2004 - Elsevier
Providing our society with goods and services contributes to a wide range of environmental
impacts. Waste generation, emissions and the consumption of resources occur at many …

Limitations of carbon footprint as indicator of environmental sustainability

A Laurent, SI Olsen, MZ Hauschild - Environmental science & …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Greenhouse gas accountings, commonly referred to with the popular term carbon footprints
(CFP), are a widely used metric of climate change impacts and the main focus of many …