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Waste Management Strategies: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Approach

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The application of life cycle assessment (LCA) as a systematic approach for identifying the environmental hot spots in waste management strategies has been increasing. Despite some underlying problems, LCA has been shown to be an appropriate approach to quantify the environmental impacts caused by distinctive solid waste management scenarios. Although this approach has long been employed as a decision support tool in waste management, some inconsistency, faulty assumptions, and incorrect methodologies can still be found in some studies on waste LCA leading to scientific errors and erroneous conclusions. This chapter aims at providing insights about the general principles and methodologies of LCA followed by providing short guidelines regarding how to effectively apply LCA in waste management systems.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering of Agricultural Machinery, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran

    Benyamin Khoshnevisan & Shahin Rafiee

  2. Biofuel Research Team (BRTeam) / Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran (ABRII), Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran

    Meisam Tabatabaei

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Khoshnevisan, B., Rafiee, S., Tabatabaei, M. (2018). Waste Management Strategies: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Approach. In: Tabatabaei, M., Ghanavati, H. (eds) Biogas. Biofuel and Biorefinery Technologies, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77335-3_12

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