Sustainable Plastics Manufacturing and Best Practices

Sustainable Plastics Environmental Assessments of Biobased, Biodegradable, and Recycled Plastics, First Edition. Joseph P. Greene. [Pg.239]

2 MANUAL CREATION OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT CALCULATIONS [Pg.240]

Life cycle assessments (LCAs) can be completed at plastics manufacturing operations to understand the effects that manufacturing changes have on the carbon footprint, waste generation, and pollution. LCA can be used to design sustainability into products and processes. LCA can be calculated with the use of an LCA tool provided online (LCA Tool 2013). [Pg.240]

LCA calculations use a 10-step process. The LCA process requires input from unit operations to calculate carbon footprint, waste generation, and pollution. The carbon footprint of the plastic manufacturing operations depends upon the electricity, natural gas, fuels, car travel, air travel, fire suppression releases, and the amount of plastic products manufactured during the year. [Pg.240]

The worksheet accepts inputs for manufacturing production data and provides an LCA for the production operation. The input for carbon footprint calculations is as follows [Pg.240]

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