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Construction and demolition waste as a raw material for wood polymer composites – Assessment of environmental impacts
(Elsevier, 2019-04-04)
The European Commission's ambitious construction and demolition waste (CDW) material recovery target has placed pressure on Finland to increase its CDW material recovery rate. It has been identified that using CDW fractions, ...
Wooden and Plastic Pallets: A Review of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Studies
(MDPI, 2019-10-17)
Pallets are the tiny cogs in the machine that drive transportation in the global economy. The profusion of pallets in today’s supply chain warrants the investigation and discussion of their respective environmental impacts. ...
Environmental impacts of wooden, plastic, and wood-polymer composite pallet: a life cycle assessment approach
(Springer Nature, 2021-07-13)
Purpose
Waste recycling is one of the essential tools for the European Union’s transition towards a circular economy. One of the possibilities for recycling wood and plastic waste is to utilise it to produce composite ...
Sustainability of Waste Management Systems: Energy Recovery
(Springer, Cham, 2021-10-14)
Energy recovery from waste represents an economically, socially, and expectedly environmentally acceptable option of waste management. Energy recovery is widely represented by waste incineration, gasification, pyrolysis, ...
Sustainability of Waste Management System: Waste Generation and Collection
(Springer, Cham, 2021-10-16)
Waste means any substance or object, which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard. Waste generation begins at the point in time when it is being discarded. After that, generation cannot be prevented or ...
Life cycle assessment of the existing and proposed municipal solid waste management system in Moscow, Russia
(Elsevier, 2021-10-20)
This study provides the first life cycle assessment (LCA) for municipal solid waste waste management system in one of the largest cities in Europe, Moscow. Its significance stems from recent important changes in the waste ...
Sustainability of Waste Management System: Treatment and Separation for Material Recovery
(Springer, Cham, 2021-11-09)
Increased global concern on the state of our climate has driven also the waste management sector to look for solutions that enable lowering of the environmental impacts by increasing waste reduction and material recycling. ...
Indicators for resource recovery monitoring within the circular economy model implementation in the wastewater sector
(Elsevier, 2021-12-20)
The European Union is currently in the process of transformation toward a circular economy model in which different areas of activity should be integrated for more efficient management of raw materials and waste. The ...
Planning for re-materialization: Developing composite fibre products and processing machinery for municipal, industrial and C&D waste fractions Circwaste - Sub-action A.6
(Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT, 2023-11-23)
The aim of the LIFE IP CIRCWASTE-FINLAND project was to implement the National Waste Plan of Finland (NWP). Finland’s NWP is aimed at tackling the raw-material consumption related environmental issues, the climate impacts ...