Guiding Environmental Sustainability of Waste Valorization—Environmental Impact Analysis
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2020) | Viewed by 183
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The EU has quite ambitious targets for example for construction and demolition waste as well as household waste. Textile waste source separation should be started as well while plastic packaging waste collection has been started in some countries as a part of the extended producer responsibility. However, sometimes when striving towards higher recycling rates, the initial goal is forgotten, namely, tackling, for example, climate change and reducing fossil resources. In some operation environments, blindly staring at the recycling rate without thinking of the consequences to the operation environments has can have adverse impacts to the original goals. For example, a situation might arise where a waste with minor environmental impact from its current treatment or utilization is pretreated and further valorized to a product with consumption of energy and material which might cause higher environmental impacts than the product which is designed to replace. It would be beneficial if papers selected to this special issue could provide information on the cases where waste or by-product based product is better than conventional product, but it could be even more beneficial to publish papers which somehow address the issue that in some cases the extended valorization does not provide additional environmental benefits.
Assoc. Prof. Jouni Havukainen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- recycling
- environmental sustainability
- waste treatment
- waste valorization
- system analysis
- life cycle assessment
- environmental impact analysis
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