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Food & garden  ‐ n°4
Title Life cycle assessment of energy from solid waste
Year 2000
Author Finnvenden et al
Impact assessment

Incineration Landfilling Composting

Anaerobic

Digestion (case

FW1)

Anaerobic (case

FW2)

Depletion of abiotic resources (kg Sb eq/ton) 723.60 ‐4824.03 2371.81 ‐7638.04 ‐8442.05

Climate change (kg CO2‐eq/ton) 133.86 2281.63 109.52 ‐699.70 ‐760.54

Cumulative enerhy demand (MJ/ton) ‐15195.69 ‐6753.64 2420.05 ‐12381.67 ‐8442.05

Waterconsumption(m^3 )

Eutrophication (kg PO4 eq)* 544.04 806.68 0.94 ‐30.02 ‐30.02

Acidification (kg SO2 eq)** 0.03 0.18 1.54 ‐0.07 0.00

Photochemical oxydation (kg ethylene eq) ‐0.27 1.72 0.52 0.38 0.54

Ozone depletion (kg CFC‐ 11  eq)

Toxicity (kg  1 ‐ 4 ‐dichlorobenzene)

Ecotoxicity (SEK/ton) EDIP ‐15.76 ‐2.53 2.19 11.26 16.32

Human Toxicity (SEK/ton) EDIP ‐196.98 ‐196.98 219.49 ‐73.16 180.10

* without effect from Nox

** without effect from Sox and Nox

Indicator not included

disposal stage only

Methodology EDIP, USES‐LCA, Ecoindicator  99

4[FW]

Treatment of the amount of the included waste fractions

collected in Sweden during one year