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Life-cycle modelling of waste management in Europe: tools, climate change and waste prevention
Europe has a long history of waste management, where regulation, implementation and enforcement have been the main drivers for the development and diversification of waste management technologies since the late 70s. Despite strong engineering development to minimise impacts to human health and the environment, waste generation and waste ‘complexity’ has increased with economic development. In recent years, the European waste industry has experienced profound and lasting transformation: the growth rate of waste generation has weakened and, most importantly, a significant shift has taken place from waste disposal to resources management, requiring modelling tools, such as life-cycle assessment (LCA) models, for carrying out environmental assessment, because of the complexity of the systems. A review of the key waste LCA models was performed in the present PhD project and showed that the results of these models most importantly depend on the technical assumptions and parameters defining waste management technologies. Some of these technical assumptions have evolved significantly from the early models to the more recent ones. An important purpose of waste LCA models is to perform environmental assessments of waste management systems and communicate the outcomes to develop evidence-based waste management policy. Global warming potential is an environmental indicator routinely modelled in LCA tools, but also reported by a number of other accounting protocols, leading to potential confusion. In this thesis, a review of the different waste management and greenhouse gases accounting mechanisms was carried out and a reporting framework, called the upstream-operating-downstream, or ‘UOD’ framework, proposed. As a mean of illustration, the global warming factor of six European member states was modelled. The outcome of the study indicates that, despite a common ‘minimum’ regulatory regime, the performance of waste management systems is very different among member states. The best performing member states are the nations ...
Life-cycle modelling of waste management in Europe: tools, climate change and waste prevention
Europe has a long history of waste management, where regulation, implementation and enforcement have been the main drivers for the development and diversification of waste management technologies since the late 70s. Despite strong engineering development to minimise impacts to human health and the environment, waste generation and waste ‘complexity’ has increased with economic development. In recent years, the European waste industry has experienced profound and lasting transformation: the growth rate of waste generation has weakened and, most importantly, a significant shift has taken place from waste disposal to resources management, requiring modelling tools, such as life-cycle assessment (LCA) models, for carrying out environmental assessment, because of the complexity of the systems. A review of the key waste LCA models was performed in the present PhD project and showed that the results of these models most importantly depend on the technical assumptions and parameters defining waste management technologies. Some of these technical assumptions have evolved significantly from the early models to the more recent ones. An important purpose of waste LCA models is to perform environmental assessments of waste management systems and communicate the outcomes to develop evidence-based waste management policy. Global warming potential is an environmental indicator routinely modelled in LCA tools, but also reported by a number of other accounting protocols, leading to potential confusion. In this thesis, a review of the different waste management and greenhouse gases accounting mechanisms was carried out and a reporting framework, called the upstream-operating-downstream, or ‘UOD’ framework, proposed. As a mean of illustration, the global warming factor of six European member states was modelled. The outcome of the study indicates that, despite a common ‘minimum’ regulatory regime, the performance of waste management systems is very different among member states. The best performing member states are the nations ...
Life-cycle modelling of waste management in Europe: tools, climate change and waste prevention
Gentil, Emmanuel (Autor:in)
01.01.2011
Gentil , E 2011 , Life-cycle modelling of waste management in Europe: tools, climate change and waste prevention . Technical University of Denmark , Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark .
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Greenhouse gas , /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/affordable_and_clean_energy , /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/responsible_consumption_and_production , SDG 13 - Climate Action , GWP , Municipal solid waste , SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities , Waste management system , Waste prevention , GWF , SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy , SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being , /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action , /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/sustainable_cities_and_communities , SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production , MSW , Life-cycle assessment , LCA , Global warming potential , Global warming factor , /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being , GHG
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