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Environmental Benefits of Using Recycled PP Fibre Through a Life Cycle Assessment

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In order to help decision makers choose reinforcing material that causes the lowest environmental impact, it is very important to carry out a comparative impact analysis. In this chapter, the environmental impacts of using 100% recycled PP fibres were assessed by using cradle to gate life cycle assessment (LCA) based on the Australian context. The LCA results showed that industrial 100% recycled PP fibre offers significant important environmental benefits over virgin PP fibre and steel reinforcing mesh (SRM). Specifically, the industrial recycled PP fibre can save 93% of CO2 equivalent, 97% of PO4 equivalent, 99% of water and 91% of oil equivalent, compared to the SRM.

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Yin, S. (2017). Environmental Benefits of Using Recycled PP Fibre Through a Life Cycle Assessment. In: Development of Recycled Polypropylene Plastic Fibres to Reinforce Concrete. Springer Theses. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3719-1_6

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