The greenhouse gas performance of selected biodegradable and recalcitrant plastics in U.S. landfills

Autor: Yixuan Wang, James W Levis, Morton A Barlaz

Publikováno v: Environmental Research Letters, Vol 19, Iss 6, p 064078 (2024)

Biodegradable plastics are often considered to exhibit superior environmental performance compared to conventional recalcitrant plastics. Here, we assess the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of selected biodegradable and recalcitrant plastics made from

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Life-Cycle Assessment of a Regulatory Compliant U.S. Municipal Solid Waste Landfill

Autor: James W. Levis, Morton A. Barlaz, Yixuan Wang

Publikováno v: Environmental Science & Technology. 55:13583-13592

Landfills receive over half of all U.S. municipal solid waste (MSW) and are the third largest source of anthropogenic methane emissions. Life-cycle assessment (LCA) of landfills is complicated by the long duration of waste disposal, gas generation an

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https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c02526

Application of LCA modelling in integrated waste management

Autor: Anna Björklund, Vlada Starostina, Valentina Bisinella, Morton A. Barlaz, Alessio Boldrin, James W. Levis, Thomas Højlund Christensen, Umberto Arena, Thomas Fruergaard Astrup, Anders Damgaard, Yan Zhao

Publikováno v: Christensen, T H, Damgaard, A, Levis, J, Zhao, Y, Björklund, A, Arena, U, Barlaz, M A, Starostina, V, Boldrin, A, Astrup, T F & Bisinella, V 2020, ' Application of LCA modelling in integrated waste management ', Waste Management, vol. 118, pp. 313-322 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2020.08.034

Life cycle assessment (LCA) has been used in waste management for the last two decades and hundreds of journal papers have been published. The use of LCA in waste management has provided a much-improved holistic view of waste management including was

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2020.08.034

An Assessment of the Dynamic Global Warming Impact Associated with Long-Term Emissions from Landfills

Autor: James W. Levis, Yixuan Wang, Morton A. Barlaz

Publikováno v: Environmental Science & Technology. 54:1304-1313

Landfills are a major contributor of anthropogenic CH4 emissions. Since the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with landfilling waste can occur over decades to centuries, the standard static approach to estimating global warming impacts may no

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https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b04066

Approaches to fill data gaps and evaluate process completeness in LCA—perspectives from solid waste management systems

Autor: James W. Levis, Morton A. Barlaz, Anders Damgaard, Trine Henriksen

Publikováno v: Henriksen, T, Levis, J W, Barlaz, M A & Damgaard, A 2019, ' Approaches to fill data gaps and evaluate process completeness in LCA—perspectives from solid waste management systems ', International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, vol. 24, no. 9, pp. 1587-1601 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-019-01592-z

Purpose: Large data amounts are required in an LCA, but often, site-specific data are missing and less representative surrogate data must be used to fill data gaps. No standardized rules exist on how to address data gaps and process completeness. We

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