Environmental modelling of aluminium recycling: A Life Cycle Assessment tool for sustainable metal management

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 105, Issue , 2015, Pages 357-370

  Paraskevas, Dimos ^a   Kellens, Karel ^a   Dewulf, Wim ^a,b   Duflou, Joost R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Associatie KULeuven   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aluminium alloys; Cascade recycling; Industrial ecology; Life Cycle Assessment; Material efficiency; Scrap sorting

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; ARTIFICIAL LIFE; BLENDING; DECISION MAKING; EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; IMPURITIES; LIFE CYCLE; METALS; RECYCLING; SCRAP METAL REPROCESSING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

END OF LIFE TREATMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT TOOLS; MATERIAL EFFICIENCY; SCRAP SORTING;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 84938054628     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.09.102     Document Type: Article

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