Environmental sustainability comparison of a hypothetical pneumatic waste collection system and a door-to-door system
| Autor: | Elina Merta, Katja Moliis, Henna Punkkinen, Nea Teerioja, Eveliina Kuvaja |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Engineering
Mobile incinerator 020209 energy waste collection Waste collection 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Environment life-cycle inventory Urban area 01 natural sciences 7. Clean energy 12. Responsible consumption Waste Management 11. Sustainability Evaluation methods 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Humans Built urban environment SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy Cities environmental sustainability Waste Management and Disposal 0105 earth and related environmental sciences geography pneumatic system geography.geographical_feature_category Waste management business.industry Environmental engineering SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities 13. Climate action Greenhouse gas Sustainability Cleaner production Electricity business |
| Zdroj: | Punkkinen, H, Merta, E, Teerioja, N, Moliis, K & Kuvaja, E 2012, ' Environmental sustainability comparison of a hypothetical pneumatic waste collection system and a door-to-door system ', Waste Management, vol. 32, no. 10, pp. 1775-1781 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2012.05.003 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.wasman.2012.05.003 |
| Popis: | Waste collection is one of the life cycle phases that influence the environmental sustainability of waste management. Pneumatic waste collection systems represent a new way of arranging waste collection in densely populated urban areas. However, limited information is available on the environmental impacts of this system. In this study, we compare the environmental sustainability of conventional door-to-door waste collection with its hypothetical pneumatic alternative. Furthermore, we analyse whether the size of the hypothetical pneumatic system, or the number of waste fractions included, have an impact on the results. Environmental loads are calculated for a hypothetical pneumatic waste collection system modelled on an existing dense urban area in Helsinki, Finland, and the results are compared to those of the prevailing, container-based, door-to-door waste collection system. The evaluation method used is the life-cycle inventory (LCI). In this study, we report the atmospheric emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG), SO2 and NOx. The results indicate that replacing the prevailing system with stationary pneumatic waste collection in an existing urban infrastructure would increase total air emissions. Locally, in the waste collection area, emissions would nonetheless diminish, as collection traffic decreases. While the electricity consumption of the hypothetical pneumatic system and the origin of electricity have a significant bearing on the results, emissions due to manufacturing the system’s components prove decisive. |
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