Recycling is the need of the hour and it is an inevitable destination at the end of the life of any product. Today, recycling can happen at postindustrial and post-consumer states and the importance of recycled products in the market has gained significant importance. Recycled products dominate the array of sustainable products in today’s context. Even though there are commercial implications for recycling, one of the very important and obvious reasons to go for recycling and to have recycled products is to have the benefits on environmental sustainability. It is highly important to assess the environmental footprints of recycled products and further improve the environmental benefits of such recycled products. This book presents five interesting chapters pertaining to the environmental footprints of various recycled products.
Author(s): Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Series: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 164
City: Singapore
Contents
About the Editor
Carbon Footprints of Recycled Plastic Packaging and Household Food Consumption by Gender in Spain
1 Introduction
2 Literature Review
3 Methodology
3.1 Data Collection
3.2 Data Homogeneity
3.3 Carbon Footprints
4 Main Results
4.1 Carbon Footprint and Emissions Pattern
4.2 Consumption Patterns: Food, Restaurants and Age Group
4.3 Emissions from Food Packaging
4.4 Household Packaging Waste and Recycling
5 Conclusions and Discussion
References
The Potential of Refuse-Derived Fuel Production in Reducing the Environmental Footprint of the Cement Industry
1 Introduction
2 A Brief Overview of Cement Industry Environmental Challenge
3 Co-benefits and Risks of Co-processing in Cement Industry
4 The Refuse-Derived Fuel Use in Cement Plants
5 The Refuse-Derived Fuel Potential: A Case Study in Brazil
6 Environmental Footprint Discussion
7 Final Remarks
References
Ecological Footprint of Multi-silicon Photovoltaic Module Recycling
1 Introduction
2 Photovoltaic Technology
2.1 Types of PV Modules
3 Global Market and Waste Generation
4 Methods of Recycling PV Modules
5 Ecological Footprint (EF)
6 Methodology
6.1 Ecological Footprint of Solar PV Panel Recycling (EFR)
7 Results
7.1 Ecological Footprint of Dismantling (EFdismantling)
7.2 Ecological Footprint of Remelting of Glass (EFremelting)
7.3 Ecological Footprint of Thermal Treatment (EFthermal)
7.4 Ecological Footprint of Chemical Treatment (EFchemical)
8 Conclusions
References
An Environmental Construction and Demolition Waste Management Model to Trigger Post-pandemic Economic Recovery Towards a Circular Economy: The Mexican and Spanish Cases
1 Introduction
2 Objective and Methodology
3 Materials and Methods
3.1 First Stage: Characterization and Selection of Social Housing Sample
3.2 CDW Quantification
3.3 CDW Environmental Indicators
4 Results and Discussion
5 Conclusions
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
References
Ecological Footprint Assessment of Recycled Asphalt Pavement Construction
1 Introduction
2 Methodology
2.1 Ecological Footprint of Asphalt Pavement (EFP)
2.2 Sustainable Recycling Index (SRI)
2.3 Economic Assessment
3 Case Samples
4 Results
4.1 Ecological Assessment
4.2 Economic Assessment
4.3 Sustainable Recycling Index (SRI)
5 Conclusions
References
