Quantifying the total environmental impacts of an industrial symbiosis-a comparison of process-, hybrid and input-output life cycle assessment

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4309-4314

  Mattila, Tuomas J ^a   Pakarinen, Suvi ^a   Sokka, Laura ^b  

^a FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-LOCATED FIRMS; ECOTOXICITY; FINLAND; GLOBAL IMPACTS; IN-PROCESS; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL SYMBIOSIS; INPUT-OUTPUT; LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENTS; LOCAL EMISSIONS; MATERIAL AND ENERGY FLOWS; OZONE DEPLETION; RESOURCE SHARING; SUPPLY CHAIN EMISSIONS;

ENERGY CONVERSION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE DISPOSAL; INDUSTRY; LAND USE; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; SUPPLY CHAINS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

METAL; OZONE;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; LAND USE; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; OZONE DEPLETION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TIMBER INDUSTRY; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FINLAND; FOREST; HYBRID; INDUSTRIAL SYMBIOSIS; LAND USE; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; OZONE DEPLETION; SYMBIOSIS;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FINLAND; INDUSTRY;

ETELA SUOMEN; FINLAND; KYMENLAAKSO;

EID: 77952939383     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es902673m     Document Type: Article

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