LCA for household waste management when planning a new urban settlement

Journal Article · Sun Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2012 · Waste Management

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2012.03.018· OSTI ID:21612999

Slagstad, Helene ^[1]; Brattebo, Helge ^[1]

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1. Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491 Trondheim (Norway)

Highlights: Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Household waste management of a new carbon neutral settlement. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer EASEWASTE as a LCA tool to compare different centralised and decentralised solutions. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Environmental benefit or close to zero impact in most of the categories. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Paper and metal recycling important for the outcome. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Discusses the challenges of waste prevention planning. - Abstract: When planning for a new urban settlement, industrial ecology tools like scenario building and life cycle assessment can be used to assess the environmental quality of different infrastructure solutions. In Trondheim, a new greenfield settlement with carbon-neutral ambitions is being planned and five different scenarios for the waste management system of the new settlement have been compared. The results show small differences among the scenarios, however, some benefits from increased source separation of paper and metal could be found. The settlement should connect to the existing waste management system of the city, and not resort to decentralised waste treatment or recovery methods. However, as this is an urban development project with ambitious goals for lifestyle changes, effort should be put into research and initiatives for proactive waste prevention and reuse issues.

• OSTI ID: 21612999
• Journal Information: Waste Management, Vol. 32, Issue 7; Other Information: DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2012.03.018; PII: S0956-053X(12)00129-8; Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0956-053X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
CARBON
ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
HOUSEHOLDS
LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT
METALS
MUNICIPAL WASTES
PAPER
PLANNING
RECYCLING
URBAN AREAS
WASTE PROCESSING
ELEMENTS
MANAGEMENT
NONMETALS
PROCESSING
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTES