Assessing environmental impact of packaging paper production based on recycled fibre raw material

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 99-108

  Iosip, Alina ^a   Hortal, Mercedes ^b   Dobón, Antonio ^b   Bobu, Elena ^a  

^a GHEORGHE ASACHI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

^b ITENE (Packaging Transport and Logistics Research Institute)   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental impact; Life cycle assessment; Packaging paper; Recovered paper

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858629107     PISSN: 15829596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30638/eemj.2012.015     Document Type: Article

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