Technical Article — Life Cycle Analysis

Plastics in Packaging — a Cradle to Grave approach

The Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi have carried out life cycle analyses of various polymer products in comparision with traditional packaging systems. In this article, the author highlights their findings on three specific packaging applications.

February 05, 2007

The last decade of the twentieth century has seen the emergence of a strong interest in the environmental impact associated with the products that surround us and by which we obtain the many services that civilization relies on. This interest has been accompanied by the development of methods for environmental assessment of products (1-9). Environmental assessment of products includes all the processes needed for the product to run through its life cycle — from the extraction of raw materials through production of the materials which are used in the manufacture of the product to the use of the product and its disposal, with possible recycling of some of its constituents. ...cont´d

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