Life cycle assessment on automotive bumper: Scenario analysis based on End-of-Life vehicle recycling system in Japan

2021 ◽  
pp. 0734242X2110308
Author(s):  
Hao Jin ◽  
Jeongsoo Yu ◽  
Kazuaki Okubo
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Energy Recovery ◽  
Recycling Industry ◽  
Material Recycling ◽  
Plastic Recycling ◽  
Global Environmental Issue ◽  
Plastic Materials ◽  
Secondary Plastic ◽  
Plastic Parts

In the last three decades, the increased use of plastics is rapidly becoming a global environmental issue, resulting in growing landfills, pollution of surrounding atmosphere, and possible greenhouse effect. The automotive industry, as a major demander of plastic materials, is starting to take responsibility on sustainable actions. Japan, as the world’s top tier car manufacturing and dealing country, has been taking attempts to the proper dealings of used auto-plastic. This research aims to find out current situation of auto-plastic recycling industry after these attempts. Furthermore, this research compares pros and cons of each treatment and methods under treatment environmentally as well as economically from the point of recycling operators using life cycle assessment. Bumper is chosen as the target to represent auto-plastic because of their homogeneity of composition and relatively large share of weight among all auto-plastic parts. The result shows that material recycling amount is decreasing along with recent promotion demonstration. Top reason is that material recycling even reduces carbon emissions, costs far more than energy recovery, and that subsidy is given to energy recovery but not material recycling worsens the situation. Besides that, lack of cooperation between stakeholders on the demand of secondary plastic is impeding material recycling. Also, better scheme on how to separate auto-plastic and what kind would be separated should be noticed by the policymaker.

scholarly journals Cascade use indicators for selected biopolymers: Are we aiming for the right solutions in the design for recycling of bio-based polymers?

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakob Hildebrandt ◽  
Alberto Bezama ◽  
Daniela Thrän
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Energy Recovery ◽  
Product Life ◽  
Material Recycling ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
Design For Recycling ◽  
Durable Products ◽  
The Right

When surveying the trends and criteria for the design for recycling (DfR) of bio-based polymers, priorities appear to lie in energy recovery at the end of the product life of durable products, such as bio-based thermosets. Non-durable products made of thermoplastic polymers exhibit good properties for material recycling. The latter commonly enjoy growing material recycling quotas in countries that enforce a landfill ban. Quantitative and qualitative indicators are needed for characterizing progress in the development towards more recycling friendly bio-based polymers. This would enable the deficits in recycling bio-based plastics to be tracked and improved. The aim of this paper is to analyse the trends in the DfR of bio-based polymers and the constraints posed by the recycling infrastructure on plastic polymers from a systems perspective. This analysis produces recommendations on how life cycle assessment indicators can be introduced into the dialogue between designers and recyclers in order to promote DfR principles to enhance the cascading use of bio-based polymers within the bioeconomy, and to meet circular economy goals.

scholarly journals Life-Cycle Assessment of Material Recycling based on Market Substitutability: A Case Study of PET Bottle Recycling

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun NAKATANI ◽  
Asako OKUNO ◽  
Minoru FUJII ◽  
Masahiko HIRAO
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Material Recycling

scholarly journals Life cycle assessment of salinity gradient energy recovery by reverse electrodialysis in a seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 4273-4284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Tristán ◽  
Marta Rumayor ◽  
Antonio Dominguez-Ramos ◽  
Marcos Fallanza ◽  
Raquel Ibáñez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Energy Recovery ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Salinity Gradient ◽  
Reverse Electrodialysis ◽  
Desalination Plant ◽  
Gradient Energy ◽  
Seawater Reverse Osmosis ◽  
Reverse Osmosis Desalination

LCA of lab-scale and large-scale stand-alone RED stacks and an up-scaled RED system co-located with a SWRO desalination plant.

A comparative life cycle assessment on lithium-ion battery: Case study on electric vehicle battery in China considering battery evolution

2020 ◽  
pp. 0734242X2096663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuoyao Wang ◽  
Jeongsoo Yu
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Lithium Ion Battery ◽  
Electric Vehicle ◽  
Lithium Ion ◽  
Collection Rate ◽  
Recycling Industry ◽  
Battery Recycling ◽  
The Future

China has become the largest electric vehicle (EV) market in the world since 2015. Consequently, the lithium-ion battery (LiB) market in China is also expanding fast. LiB makers are continually introducing new types of LiBs into the market to improve LiBs’ performance. However, there will be a considerable amount of waste LiBs generated in China. These waste LiBs should be appropriately recycled to avoid resources’ waste or environmental pollution problems. Yet, because LiBs’ type keeps changing, the environmental impact and profitability of the waste LiB recycling industry in China become uncertain. In this research, we reveal the detailed life cycle process of EVs’ LiBs in China first. Then, the environmental impact of each type of LiB is speculated using the life cycle assessment (LCA) method. Moreover, we clarify how LiBs’ evolution will affect the economic effect of the waste battery recycling industry in China. We perform a sensitivity analysis focusing on waste LiBs’ collection rate. We found that along with LiBs’ evolution, their environmental impact is decreasing. Furthermore, if waste LiBs could be appropriately recycled, their life cycle environmental impact would be further dramatically decreased. On the other hand, the profitability of the waste battery recycling industry in China would decrease in the future. Moreover, it is essential to improve waste LiBs’ collection rate to establish an efficient waste LiB industry. Such a trend should be noticed by the Chinese government and waste LiB recycling operators to establish a sustainable waste LiB recycling industry in the future.

scholarly journals The Life-Cycle Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Life-Cycle Costs of E-Waste Management in Thailand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aweewan Mangmeechai
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Electronic Waste ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Value Added ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Waste Products ◽  
Air Conditioners ◽  
Recycling Industry

Abstract There is no clear direction in the management of electrical and electronic waste products (e-waste), as there are no regulations on ways to do so. This research attempts to understand the trade-off between economic value and environmental effects of the current disposal of e-waste to find ways to optimize waste management, focusing on cellphones, television CRTs, desktop computers, and air conditioners. A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a tool that can analyze various influences, e.g., environmental, costs, and value added. Under the e-waste management status quo, most household e-wastes are kept in houses because owners do not know where to discard them. In addition, informal sectors, such as domestic farmers or workers, have been involved actively for more than a decade, leading to poor management standards for both health and the environment. The logistics are inefficient because the dismantling communities and recycling industry are far apart. Most e-waste is generated, and most recycling industries are located, in the Central region (the richest areas), while the dismantling communities are located in the Northeastern region (the poorest areas). Further, LCA and LCC of e-waste are sensitive to transportation, and not all e-waste parts can be recycled within the country. High-tech mineral extraction cannot be practiced in the country, and thus, circuit boards and batteries are exported for recycling. To promote a circular economy, e-waste management regulations should be implemented and a full recycling industry should be established in the country.

A life cycle assessment of energy recovery using briquette from wastewater grown microalgae biomass

2021 ◽  
Vol 285 ◽  
pp. 112171
Author(s):  
Bianca Barros Marangon ◽  
Maria Lúcia Calijuri ◽  
Jackeline de Siqueira Castro ◽  
Paula Peixoto Assemany
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Energy Recovery ◽  
Microalgae Biomass

Life cycle assessment of an industrial symbiosis based on energy recovery from dried sludge and used oil

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (15) ◽  
pp. 1700-1708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiang Liu ◽  
Peipei Jiang ◽  
Jun Zhao ◽  
Bo Zhang ◽  
Huadan Bian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Energy Recovery ◽  
Industrial Symbiosis ◽  
Used Oil ◽  
Dried Sludge

scholarly journals Life-cycle-assessment of the historical development of air pollution control and energy recovery in waste incineration

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 1244-1250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Damgaard ◽  
Christian Riber ◽  
Thilde Fruergaard ◽  
Tore Hulgaard ◽  
Thomas H. Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Energy Recovery ◽  
Waste Incineration ◽  
Air Pollution Control

scholarly journals End-of-Life Tyres: Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Treatment Scenarios

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 3599
Author(s):  
Isabella Bianco ◽  
Deborah Panepinto ◽  
Mariachiara Zanetti
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Energy Recovery ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Crumb Rubber ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Bituminous Mixtures ◽  
Waste Tyres ◽  
The Impact

Waste tyres and their accumulation is a global environmental concern; they are not biodegradable, and, globally, an estimated 1.5 billion are generated annually. Every year around 350,000 tons of end-of-life tyres (ELT) are managed in Italy, collected from cars, two-wheeled vehicles, trucks, up to large quarry vehicles and agricultural vehicles. ELTs are collected and sent for material or energy recovery, in line with the circular economy principles. This paper investigates the environmental impacts of two common scenarios of ELT treatments. Specifically, it is analysed the recycling of crumb rubber (CR, deriving from the tyre shredding) for the composition of bituminous mixtures for the wearing course of roads. This scenario is compared with the energy recovery route in a dedicated incinerator. To this aim the standardised methodology of Life Cycle Assessment (ISO 14040-44) is employed. Results shows that for most part of the impact categories analysed, the material recovery presents higher environmental benefits if compared with energy recovery.

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