An emergy-LCA analysis of municipal solid waste management

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Volumn 120, Issue , 2017, Pages 131-143

  Liu, Gengyuan ^a,b   Hao, Yan ^a,b   Dong, Liang ^c,d   Yang, Zhifeng ^a,b   Zhang, Yan ^a,b   Ulgiati, Sergio ^a,b,e  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Beijing Engineering Research Center for Watershed Environmental Restoration and Integrated Ecological Regulation   (China)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Emergy analysis; Environmental impacts; Municipal solid waste collection; Separated transportation rate; Source separation rate

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; FLUIDIZED BEDS; INVESTMENTS; LAND FILL; LIFE CYCLE; RECYCLING; SOURCE SEPARATION; TRANSPORTATION CHARGES; WASTE INCINERATION; WASTE TREATMENT;

COMPOSTING SYSTEMS; DIFFERENT TREATMENTS; ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; EMERGY ANALYSIS; INCINERATION SYSTEMS; PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; RECYCLED MATERIALS; SOLID WASTE COLLECTION;

MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE TREATMENT;

CHINA; COMPOSTING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLUIDIZED BED; HUMAN; INCINERATION; JOINT; LANDFILL; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; RECYCLING; SOUND;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 85008471520     PISSN: 09213449     EISSN: 18790658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2016.12.003     Document Type: Article

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