Assessing the transition of municipal solid waste management using combined material flow analysis and life cycle assessment
Faced with the challenges to deal with increasingly growing and ever diversified municipal solid waste (MSW), a series of waste directives have been published by European Commission to divert MSW from landfills to more sustainable management options. The presented study assessed the transition of MS...
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| description | Faced with the challenges to deal with increasingly growing and ever diversified municipal solid waste (MSW), a series of waste directives have been published by European Commission to divert MSW from landfills to more sustainable management options. The presented study assessed the transition of MSW man-agement in Nottingham, UK, since the enforcement of the EU Landfill Directive using a tool of combined materials flow analysis (MFA) and life cycle assess-ment (LCA). The results show that the MSW management system in Nottingham changed from a relatively simple landfill & energy from waste (EfW) mode to a complex, multi-technology mode. Improvements in waste reduction, material re-cycling, energy recovery, and landfill prevention have been made. As a positive result, the global warming potential (GWP) of the MSW management system re-duced from 1,076.0 kg CO2–eq./t of MSW in 2001/02 to 211.3 kg CO2–eq./t of MSW in 2016/17. Based on the results of MFA and LCA, recommendations on separating food waste and textile at source and updating treatment technologies are made for future improvement. |
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| spelling | nottingham-642072020-12-31T05:54:52Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64207/ Assessing the transition of municipal solid waste management using combined material flow analysis and life cycle assessment Wang, Dan He, Jun Tang, Yu-Ting Faced with the challenges to deal with increasingly growing and ever diversified municipal solid waste (MSW), a series of waste directives have been published by European Commission to divert MSW from landfills to more sustainable management options. The presented study assessed the transition of MSW man-agement in Nottingham, UK, since the enforcement of the EU Landfill Directive using a tool of combined materials flow analysis (MFA) and life cycle assess-ment (LCA). The results show that the MSW management system in Nottingham changed from a relatively simple landfill & energy from waste (EfW) mode to a complex, multi-technology mode. Improvements in waste reduction, material re-cycling, energy recovery, and landfill prevention have been made. As a positive result, the global warming potential (GWP) of the MSW management system re-duced from 1,076.0 kg CO2–eq./t of MSW in 2001/02 to 211.3 kg CO2–eq./t of MSW in 2016/17. Based on the results of MFA and LCA, recommendations on separating food waste and textile at source and updating treatment technologies are made for future improvement. Springer 2020-12-02 Book Section PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64207/1/Assessing%20the%20Transition%20of%20Municipal%20Solid%20Waste%20Management%20Using%20Combined%20Material%20Flow%20Analysis%20and%20Life%20Cycle%20Assessment.pdf Wang, Dan, He, Jun and Tang, Yu-Ting (2020) Assessing the transition of municipal solid waste management using combined material flow analysis and life cycle assessment. In: Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Resource Sustainability: Sustainable Urbanisation in the BRI Era (icRS Urbanisation 2020). Environmental Science and Engineering . Springer, Singapore, pp. 77-92. ISBN 9789811596056 Municipal Solid Waste; Material Flow Analysis; Life Cycle As-sessment; Global Warming Potential; Future Improvement http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9605-6_6 doi:10.1007/978-981-15-9605-6_6 doi:10.1007/978-981-15-9605-6_6 |
| spellingShingle | Municipal Solid Waste; Material Flow Analysis; Life Cycle As-sessment; Global Warming Potential; Future Improvement Wang, Dan He, Jun Tang, Yu-Ting Assessing the transition of municipal solid waste management using combined material flow analysis and life cycle assessment |
| title | Assessing the transition of municipal solid waste management using combined material flow analysis and life cycle assessment |
| title_full | Assessing the transition of municipal solid waste management using combined material flow analysis and life cycle assessment |
| title_fullStr | Assessing the transition of municipal solid waste management using combined material flow analysis and life cycle assessment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessing the transition of municipal solid waste management using combined material flow analysis and life cycle assessment |
| title_short | Assessing the transition of municipal solid waste management using combined material flow analysis and life cycle assessment |
| title_sort | assessing the transition of municipal solid waste management using combined material flow analysis and life cycle assessment |
| topic | Municipal Solid Waste; Material Flow Analysis; Life Cycle As-sessment; Global Warming Potential; Future Improvement |
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