Sustainability analysis of landfilling and composting-landfilling for municipal solid waste management in the north of Iran
| Autor: | Leyla Behrooznia, Mohammad Sharifi, Seyed Hashem Mousavi-Avval, Reza Alimardani |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Municipal solid waste
Waste management Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry Compost 020209 energy Strategy and Management Fossil fuel Global warming 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences engineering.material 01 natural sciences Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Sustainability 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering engineering Environmental science Environmental impact assessment Ecotoxicity business Life-cycle assessment 0105 earth and related environmental sciences General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Cleaner Production. 203:1028-1038 |
| ISSN: | 0959-6526 |
| Popis: | This study evaluates the energy use, exergy demand and the main hot spots of two municipal solid waste (MSW) management scenarios including landfilling (100% landfilling) and composting-landfilling (48% composting, 50.5% landfilling, 1.5% recycling), available in Rasht, Iran. The functional unit was defined as 100 t MSW. The system boundaries encompassed activities ranging from MSW collection in the city up to MSW burial in the landfill and delivery of compost and recyclable materials to the market. For quantifying the environmental impacts, 11 impact categories were analyzed using life cycle assessment methodology, and the outcomes of characterization and normalization of impact categories were interpreted. The results showed that total energy consumption for composting-landfilling was greater than that of landfilling (22.5 vs. 17.5 GJ/100tMSW). Composting-landfilling scenario showed avoided environmental emissions in the forms of abiotic depletion, terrestrial ecotoxicity and freshwater aquatic ecotoxicity associated with the production of compost; moreover, global warming potential, human toxicity, marine aquatic ecotoxicity, photochemical oxidation and acidification of landfilling scenario were found to be higher than those of composting-landfilling scenario by 495%, 239%, 49%, 679% and 669%, respectively. On the other hand, composting-landfilling scenario had higher fossil fuels abiotic depletion, ozone layer depletion and eutrophication potential. Transportation accounted for the highest contribution to overall environmental emissions in both of the investigated scenarios, demonstrating the importance of decreasing environmental burdens during this step. Overall, compared to landfilling scenario, the lower environmental burdens associated with composting-landfilling scenario make it more environmentally attractive. |
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