TY - JOUR
T1 - Application of life cycle assessment to landfilling
AU - Rieradevall, Joan
AU - Domènech, Xavier
AU - Fullana, Pere
PY - 1997/1/1
Y1 - 1997/1/1
N2 - A case study of a life-cycle assessment (LCA) is performed concerning the treatment of household solid wastes in a landfill. The stages considered in this LCA study are: goal and scope definition, inventory analysis and impact assessment. The data of the inventory include the consumption of raw materials and energy through the transport of wastes and the management of landfill, and the corresponding emissions to the environment. Abiotic resource depletion, global warming, acidification, eutrophication and human toxicological impacts have been considered as impact categories for the impact assessment phase of the LCA. A comparison of the environmental impact of the landfilling with and without energy recovery is carried out.
AB - A case study of a life-cycle assessment (LCA) is performed concerning the treatment of household solid wastes in a landfill. The stages considered in this LCA study are: goal and scope definition, inventory analysis and impact assessment. The data of the inventory include the consumption of raw materials and energy through the transport of wastes and the management of landfill, and the corresponding emissions to the environment. Abiotic resource depletion, global warming, acidification, eutrophication and human toxicological impacts have been considered as impact categories for the impact assessment phase of the LCA. A comparison of the environmental impact of the landfilling with and without energy recovery is carried out.
KW - Abiotic resources depletion, landfilling
KW - Acidification, landfilling
KW - Energy recovery, landfilling environmental impact, landfilling eutrophication, landfilling
KW - Global warming, landfilling
KW - Household solid wastes, treatment
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0008160454
U2 - 10.1007/BF02978806
DO - 10.1007/BF02978806
M3 - Article
SN - 0948-3349
VL - 2
SP - 141
EP - 144
JO - International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
JF - International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
IS - 3
ER -
