Environmental Assessment of Recycled Waste (Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes)

This book with its six interesting chapters highlights the environmental assessment of recycled waste. Waste Management is one of the main topics of concern for an organization and a nation. Out of different destinations at the end of life for a product, Recycling is the need of the hour and is an inevitable destination. Literally all wastes (be it- postindustrial or post-consumer states) if they cannot be reused, have to be recycled. Recycled products are in demand today and we are seeing many recycled alternatives for almost all industrial sectors. One of the million-dollar question to answer in terms of recycling and recycled products is- whether the recycled products are environmentally sustainable than the virgin alternatives? It is highly imperative to ascertain the environmental footprints of recycled products and recycling processes and also find out the best possible ways to further improve the environmental benefits of such recycled products and recycling processes. Preface Contents About the Editor Carbon Footprint of Pipe Production Using Waste Plastics 1 Introduction 1.1 Plastics Pipe Manufacturing 2 Methodology 2.1 Case Study Selection 2.2 Production of Waste Plastic Pipes 2.3 Carbon Footprint Calculation 3 Results and Discussion 3.1 Plastic Pipe Production Process 4 Conclusions References Enviro-Economic Assessment of Plastic Cell-Filled Concrete Pavement 1 Introduction 2 Methods and Materials 2.1 Construction Materials 2.2 Environmental Assessment 2.3 Economic Assessment 3 Results 3.1 Environmental Assessment 3.2 Economic Assessment 4 Conclusions References Carbon Footprint and Economic Assessment of LED Bulbs Recycling 1 Introduction 1.1 An Economic LED Recycling Approach 2 Methods and Materials 2.1 LED Bulbs Characterisation 2.2 Recycling Process 2.3 Carbon Footprint 3 Results 3.1 Economic Assessment 4 Conclusions References An Empirical Investigation of Waste Management and Ecological Footprints in OECD Countries 1 Introduction 2 Literature Review 3 Empirical Strategy 3.1 Empirical Model and Data 3.2 Methodology 4 Empirical Findings 5 Conclusions and Policy Implications References Ecological Footprint Assessment of e-Waste Recycling 1 Introduction 1.1 Categories of Appliances Generating e-Waste 1.2 Life Cycle Stages of e-Waste 1.3 Stages of e-Waste Recycling 1.4 Generation of e-Waste Globally 2 Methods and Materials 2.1 Ecological Footprint of e-Waste Recycling (EFER) 2.2 Economic Assessment 3 Results and Discussions 3.1 EF of Electricity Use 3.2 EF of Transportation 3.3 Water Use 3.4 Land 3.5 Labour 3.6 Economic Assessment 3.7 Global Ecological Footprint of e-Waste Recycling 4 Conclusions References Ecological Footprint Assessment of Concrete Using e-Waste 1 Introduction 1.1 Plain Cement Concrete with e-Waste Use 1.2 Procedure of Sample Preparation of Plain Cement Concrete 1.3 Limitation 2 Methodology 2.1 Ecological Footprint of Concrete (EFC) 2.2 Economic Assessment 2.3 Sustainable Recycling Index (SRI) 3 Results 3.1 Ecological Footprint of Concrete Manufacturing 3.2 Economic Assessment of Concrete 3.3 Sustainable Recycling Index (SRI) 3.4 Compressive Strength 4 Conclusions References