Sustainability metrics: Life cycle assessment and green design in polymers

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 8264-8269

  Tabone, Michaelangelo D ^a,b   Cregg, James J ^a   Beckman, Eric J ^a,b   Landis, Amy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOM ECONOMY; BIOLOGICAL SOURCES; COMPLEX POLYMERS; DECISION MATRICES; GREEN CHEMISTRY; GREEN DESIGNS; GREEN ENGINEERING; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATIONS; LIFE CYCLE ENERGIES; LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENTS; LIFE-CYCLE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; RANKING SYSTEM; RENEWABLE SOURCES; SINGLE-VALUE; SUSTAINABILITY METRICS; USING LIFE;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOMOLECULES; BIOPOLYMERS; DESIGN; ENZYME INHIBITION; HEALTH HAZARDS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POLYMERS; POLYOLEFINS; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

BIOPOLYMER; LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENE; PETROLEUM; POLYCARBONATE; POLYETHYLENE; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE; POLYMER; POLYPROPYLENE; POLYSTYRENE; POLYVINYLCHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIODEGRADATION; DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; PETROLEUM; POLYMER; RECYCLING; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SUSTAINABILITY;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABILITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GREEN CHEMISTRY; HEALTH HAZARD; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; METRIC SYSTEM; RECYCLING; RENEWABLE ENERGY;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GREEN CHEMISTRY TECHNOLOGY; PETROLEUM; POLYENES; POLYMERS;

EID: 78549245940     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es101640n     Document Type: Article

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