Fully integrated modelling for sustainability assessment of resource recovery from waste

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 612, Issue , 2018, Pages 613-624

  Millward Hopkins, Joel ^a   Busch, Jonathan ^a   Purnell, Phil ^a   Zwirner, Oliver ^b   Velis, Costas A ^a   Brown, Andrew ^b   Hahladakis, John ^a   Iacovidou, Eleni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Circular economy; Life cycle sustainability analysis; Material flow analysis; Multidimensional value; Resource recovery; Sustainability assessment

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; LIFE CYCLE; METAL RECOVERY; NATURAL RESOURCES; RECOVERY;

CIRCULAR ECONOMY; MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; MULTIDIMENSIONAL VALUE; RESOURCE RECOVERY; SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 85028506480     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.211     Document Type: Article

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