LCA and Eco-design
Consequential and Attributional Approaches for Bio-based Plastics
- authored by
- Venkateshwaran Venkatachalam, Sebastian Spierling, Rafael Horn, Hans Josef Endres
- Abstract
Against the background of climate change and finite fossil resources, bio-based plastics have been in the focus of research for the last decade and were identified as a promising alternative to fossil-based plastics. Now, with an evolving bio-based plastic market and application range, the environmental advantages of bio-based plastic have come to the fore and identified as crucial by different stakeholders. While the majority of assessments for bio-based plastics are carried out based on attributional life cycle assessment, there have been only few consequential studies done in this area. Also, the application of eco-design strategies has not been in the focus for the bio-based products due to the prevailing misconceptions of renewable materials (as feedstock for bio-based plastics) considered in itself as an 'eco-design strategy'. In this paper, we discuss the life cycle assessment as well as eco-design strategies of a bio-based product taking attributional as well as consequential approaches into account.
- External Organisation(s)
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University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover (HsH)
University of Stuttgart
- Type
- Conference article
- Journal
- Procedia CIRP
- Volume
- 69
- Pages
- 579-584
- No. of pages
- 6
- ISSN
- 2212-8271
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publication status
- Published
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Control and Systems Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy, SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production, SDG 13 - Climate Action
- Electronic version(s)
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2017.11.086 (Access:
Open)
