Differences in energy use and environmental impacts between recycling and waste incineration
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has been assigned by the Government to examine the possibilities to collect and recycle goods and/or consumer products into the source separated waste streams of the packaging waste. One part of this examination is to assess the environmental effects of changing the collecting and recycling system for household waste. For this purpose, fms has done a literature review of already performed life-cycle analyses of waste management systems in order to compile the differences in energy use and environmental impacts between recycling and waste incineration.
Project team: Sara Tyskeng & Göran Finnveden.
Funding: Environmental Protection Agency
Period: 2007
Contact person: Sara Tyskeng, fms 08-790 8610
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