Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Bioplastics Production from Lignocellulosic Waste (Study Case: PLA and PHB)
Lacrimioara Senila, Eniko Kovacs, Maria-Alexandra Resz, Marin Senila, Anca Becze, Cecilia Roman, Mercedes Jiménez-Rosado, Víctor Manuel Pérez Puyana, Alberto Romero García · 2024
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Description
Senila and coauthors assess life cycle costs of bioplastics from orchard waste. Bioplastics can replace oil-based plastics since they rot and are non-toxic. Orchard waste offers a farm source for such plastics. The team compared two bioplastics by full life cycle.
One plastic was made from orchard waste in staged steps. Those steps held extraction, fermentation, and polymerization. The next plastic is made by microbes through fermentation. Impacts were counted from raw source to final product. Energy, emissions, and waste were all tallied. Results show which route burdens nature less.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Lacrimioara Senila, Eniko Kovacs, Maria-Alexandra Resz, Marin Senila, Anca Becze, Cecilia Roman, Mercedes Jiménez-Rosado, Víctor Manuel Pérez Puyana, Alberto Romero García |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 49 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |