In this study, the environmental impacts of rapeseed production were studied using SimaPro software. The initial data collected from 30 farmers in Alborz Province by face-to-face questionnaire method. selected functional unit (FU) was one Mton-1 production. Five indices evaluated, including potential abiotic depletion, acidification, eutrophication, global warming and ozone layer depletion. To ...

The bamboo industry plays a significant strategic role in the world’s economy. Laminated bamboo, with increasing yearly yields, is the intermediate material for bamboo products such as furniture, floor board, and container floor. The trilaminar straight joint glued-laminated bamboo production line is the leading enterprise in Fujian Province, and it was used to conduct a load analysis of the da...

Due to increasing solid waste generation and their significant impacts on human health, environmental assessment of the management and disposal methods become more and more important. There are various disposal methods which are the combinations that originate from a wide range of solid waste management systems. In this study, municipal waste of Tehran (which totals to 7507.5 tons/day) is asses...

The aim of this research was to investigate the environmental impacts of olive fruit production under different orchard size and upon organic and common agro-systems through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology in Rudbar region, Guilan province, northern Iran. The data were collected using a self-structured questionnaire and face-to-face interview with 305 olive growers in the study region. ...

escalating development of tourism and petroleum industries in small islands such as lavan-iranrequires sound solid waste management. in the present investigation, three scenarios which consist of thecombination of landfill, recycling, incineration and composting and their environmental impacts have beenevaluated for 7514 kg/day of waste generation in lavan island. for this purpose, life cycle a...

First year university science students are surveyed about their understanding of the ozone layer, ozone depletion and the effect of ozone depletion on Australia. Although students seem to understand the basic function of the ozone layer, over 65% of students incorrectly believe that the ozone hole is over Australia, and over 90% of students incorrectly believe that the ozone hole is present dur...

About 90% of the ozone in the Earth’s atmosphere resides in the stratosphere, forming the ‘‘ozone layer’’ which shields life on Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation. In the mid-1970s, it was recognized that anthropogenic chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) could deplete the ozone layer. Observations of the ozone layer indicated that depletion was occurring due to the buildup of CFCs and Halons in th...