Microsoft Word - Environmental benefits of recycling 2010 update.doc

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Title assessmentSolid^ waste^ managementof emissions andand sinks^ greenhouse^ gases:^ A^ life^ cycle^


Year 2006
Author US EPA


Impact assessment


IPCC

Recycling Incineration Landfilling
Depletion of abiotic resources (kg Sb eq)
Climate change (kg CO 2  eq/ton) ‐ 760 ‐ 200 ‐ 240
Cumulative enerhy demand (MBtu/t) ‐16,49 ‐2,54 0,42
Water consumption (kg/t)
Eutrophication (kg PO4 eq)
Acidification (kg SO2 eq)
Photochemical oxydation (kg ethylene eq)
Ozone depletion (kg CFC‐ 11  eq)
Toxicity (kg  1 ‐ 4 ‐dichlorobenzene)
Waste (kg/t)

Indicator not included

4[NS]

1  short ton of material

Methodology


disposal stage only
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