Carbon and water footprint for the recycling process of expanded polystyrene (EPS) post-consumer waste.
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Plastic pollution of the natural environment is ubiquitous, and around 40% all plastic waste produced globally used in single-use products only 9% recycled. From this waste, expandable polystyrene pose a major problem because its great volume low density. To abord issue, authors proposed circular economy model for EPS post-consumer 2019 through case study with help one local manufacturer. Although idea promoting circularity seems priori to have good impact on environment, process reincorporate reused and/or recycled materials under concept CE economic environmental impacts that should be measured. understand if recycling truly beneficial first we need do sustainability analysis, using indicators, such as Carbon Footprint (CF) Water (WF). The objective present paper perform analysis into resin pellets CF WF indicators. We three scenarios considering an artisanal (A), 2027 electricity power mix (B), industrial current (C) use virgin PS destination landfill compare. measured CO2 emissions m3 freshwater SimaPro 9.1 software. Overall, total A B are approximately 42% 16% higher than scenario D, but C exhibits reduction almost 50%. For water depletion, show very values those D 536% 534%, respectively. Important mention presents much better A, meaning increase share production by renewable energies can improve sustainable resin.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Procedia CIRP
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2212-8271']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2022.02.075