Application of Life Cycle Assessment for Solid Waste Management
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical and Molecular Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2019) | Viewed by 5483
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Interests: sustainability; built environment; green building; circular economy; sustainable; development; environmental impact assessment; environment; environmental analysis; environmental management; climate change
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Dear Colleagues,
Waste generation rates are high and increasing. Reuse and recycling are making progress, but still most waste is subject to landfill disposal with poor resource recovery, causing the emission of climate gases and hazardous substances. For a long time, life cycle assessment (LCA) has been widely used to evaluate the environmental impact of waste management. Even if LCA in waste management is well described in books and occasionally as part of LCA case studies, rather few scientific publications can be found which are dedicated to reviewing, discussing, and developing the LCA method as such. As concepts such as remanufacturing, cradle-to-cradle, and circular economy evolve along with improved technology, it is relevant and vital that LCA methodology be further developed so that it can be used to evaluate the environmental benefits of increased circularity of materials.
Papers within the whole field of life cycle assessment of solid waste management are welcome. Of special interest are papers on (1) methodology development and (2) combined assessment of waste management systems and other systems such as transport systems, energy systems, agricultural systems etc. investigating how waste can be turned from a problem to a renewable resource, thereby offsetting environmental impact from conventional production methods. Other topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, LCA used in:
- circular economy concepts;
- scenarios and future studies;
- technology development;
- combination with cost benefit analysis and social LCA;
- policy making;
- planning and implementation;
- education and training.
Assoc. Prof. Ola Eriksson
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- solid waste
- waste treatment
- LCA
- policy making
