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Food & garden  ‐ n°7

Title Environmental^ assessment^ of^ waste^ systems^ for^ municipal^ waste^ in^
Århus Kommune
Year 2004
Author Kikerby

Impact assessment

Incineration Anaerobic Digestion

Depletion of abiotic resources (kg Sb eq)

Climate change (kg CO 2  eq) ‐278,53 ‐178,28

Cumulative enerhy demand (MJ)

Water consumption (kg)

Eutrophication (kg PO4 eq) 1,35 0,91

Acidification (kg SO2 eq) 1,28 0,50

Photochemical oxydation (kg ethylene eq) 0,01 0,06

Ozone depletion (kg CFC‐ 11  eq) 0,00 0,00

Toxicity (kg  1 ‐ 4 ‐dichlorobenzene)

Waste (kg/t)

Human Toxicity water (m3) 997,59 1526,93

Human Toxicity air (m3) 12668642,15 ‐2239269,36

Human Toxicity soil (m3) 0,83 26,35

Ecotoxicity water chronic (m3) 333,16 ‐1786,68

Ecotoxicity water acc (m3) 19,24 ‐205,85

Ecotoxicity soil (m3) 0,01 ‐0,10

Indicator not included

7[OR]

1  ton of waste

disposal stage only

Methodology EDIP