The potential environmental gains from recycling waste plastics: Simulation of transferring recycling and recovery technologies to Shenyang, China

Waste Management

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 168-179

  Chen, Xudong ^a,b,c   Xi, Fengming ^a   Geng, Yong ^a   Fujita, Tsuyoshi ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEAN ENERGY; COMBINED TECHNOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS; FORMWORK; GHG EMISSION; INVENTORY DATA; LOW CARBON ECONOMY; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; PRIVATE COMPANIES; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; RECOVERY TECHNOLOGY; RECYCLING WASTES; STEP SIMULATION; SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITY; WASTE PLASTIC; WASTE PLASTICS RECYCLING;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ELASTOMERS; ENERGY CONVERSION; FOSSIL FUELS; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; PLASTICITY; PRIVATIZATION; RECOVERY; RECYCLING; SOLID WASTES; STEEL METALLURGY; TECHNOLOGY;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

FOSSIL FUEL; PLASTIC;

CARBON EMISSION; DEVELOPING WORLD; FOSSIL FUEL; FUEL CONSUMPTION; GREENHOUSE GAS; PLASTIC WASTE; RECYCLING;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENERGY RECOVERY; GREENHOUSE GAS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; SIMULATION; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLASTICS; RECYCLING; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE PRODUCTS;

CHINA; LIAONING; SHENYANG;

EID: 78149358277     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2010.08.010     Document Type: Article

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