Comparative life cycle assessment of fossil and bio-based polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 137, Issue , 2016, Pages 667-676

  Chen, Luyi ^a,b   Pelton, Rylie E O ^a,b   Smith, Timothy M ^a,b  

^a Institute on the Environment   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bio polyethylene terephthalate (bio PET) bottle; Bioplastics; Comparative life cycle assessment (LCA); Paraxylene (PX); Polyethylene terephthalate (PET)

Indexed keywords

BOTTLES; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EXTRACTION; FEEDSTOCKS; FOSSIL FUELS; GLOBAL WARMING; OZONE LAYER; PLASTIC BOTTLES; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; REINFORCED PLASTICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

APPLICATION OF FERTILIZERS; BIO-PLASTICS; COMPARATIVE LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); PARAXYLENE; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES (PET);

LIFE CYCLE;

EVALUATION; LIFE CYCLE; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE;

EID: 84991110342     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.07.094     Document Type: Article

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