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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 579-584 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Procedia CIRP |
| Volume | 69 |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 25th CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, , CIRP LCE 2018 - Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 30 Apr 2018 → 2 May 2018 |
Abstract
Against the background of climate change and finite fossil resources, bio-based plastics have been in the focus of research for the last decade and were identified as a promising alternative to fossil-based plastics. Now, with an evolving bio-based plastic market and application range, the environmental advantages of bio-based plastic have come to the fore and identified as crucial by different stakeholders. While the majority of assessments for bio-based plastics are carried out based on attributional life cycle assessment, there have been only few consequential studies done in this area. Also, the application of eco-design strategies has not been in the focus for the bio-based products due to the prevailing misconceptions of renewable materials (as feedstock for bio-based plastics) considered in itself as an 'eco-design strategy'. In this paper, we discuss the life cycle assessment as well as eco-design strategies of a bio-based product taking attributional as well as consequential approaches into account.
Keywords
- attributional LCA, Bio-based plastics, Consequential LCA, Eco-design
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Engineering(all)
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Engineering(all)
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Sustainable Development Goals
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In: Procedia CIRP, Vol. 69, 2018, p. 579-584.
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T1 - LCA and Eco-design
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AU - Venkatachalam, Venkateshwaran
AU - Spierling, Sebastian
AU - Horn, Rafael
AU - Endres, Hans Josef
N1 - Funding Information: The authors thank hereby the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany as well as the project organization within the German Aerospace Center (DLR) for the funding and support of the research project “New pathways, strategies, business and communication models for bioplastics as a building block of a sustainable economy” (BiNa) and within its framework, this research has been conducted. Publisher Copyright: © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.
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N2 - Against the background of climate change and finite fossil resources, bio-based plastics have been in the focus of research for the last decade and were identified as a promising alternative to fossil-based plastics. Now, with an evolving bio-based plastic market and application range, the environmental advantages of bio-based plastic have come to the fore and identified as crucial by different stakeholders. While the majority of assessments for bio-based plastics are carried out based on attributional life cycle assessment, there have been only few consequential studies done in this area. Also, the application of eco-design strategies has not been in the focus for the bio-based products due to the prevailing misconceptions of renewable materials (as feedstock for bio-based plastics) considered in itself as an 'eco-design strategy'. In this paper, we discuss the life cycle assessment as well as eco-design strategies of a bio-based product taking attributional as well as consequential approaches into account.
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Y2 - 30 April 2018 through 2 May 2018
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