Beyond the material grave: Life Cycle Impact Assessment of leaching from secondary materials in road and earth constructions

Waste Management

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1884-1896

  Schwab, Oliver ^a,b   Bayer, Peter ^a   Juraske, Ronnie ^a   Verones, Francesca ^a,c   Hellweg, Stefanie ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Heavy metals; Leaching; Life cycle assessment; Mineral industrial waste; Road and earth construction; Secondary construction material

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEAVY METALS; INDUSTRIAL WASTES; LEACHING; MINERALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROADS AND STREETS; SOILS; WASTE TREATMENT;

CONSTRUCTION SECTORS; EARTH CONSTRUCTION; INDUSTRIAL MINERAL; INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE IMPACT ASSESSMENT; SECONDARY MATERIALS; WASTE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES;

LIFE CYCLE;

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; GROUND WATER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; VANADIUM; ZINC; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; SOIL POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTANT;

CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEAVY METAL; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LEACHING; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; CONSTRUCTION WORK; EARTH CONSTRUCTION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GERMANY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LEACHING; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; SOIL; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SOIL POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTANT;

GERMANY;

CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GERMANY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METALS, HEAVY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84912521710     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2014.04.022     Document Type: Article

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