TY - GEN
T1 - Assessing the Transition of Municipal Solid Waste Management Using Combined Material Flow Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment
AU - Wang, Dan
AU - He, Jun
AU - Tang, Yu Ting
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Faced with the challenges to deal with increasingly growing and ever diversified municipal solid waste (MSW), a series of waste directives have been published by European Commission to divert MSW from landfills to more sustainable management options. The presented study assessed the transition of MSW management in Nottingham, UK, since the enforcement of the EU Landfill Directive using a tool of combined materials flow analysis (MFA) and life cycle assessment (LCA). The results show that the MSW management system in Nottingham changed from a relatively simple landfill and energy from waste (EfW) mode to a complex, multi-technology mode. Improvements in waste reduction, material recycling, energy recovery, and landfill prevention have been made. As a positive result, the global warming potential (GWP) of the MSW management system reduced from 1076.0 kg CO2-eq./t of MSW in 2001/02 to 211.3 kg CO2-eq./t of MSW in 2016/17. Based on the results of MFA and LCA, recommendations on separating food waste and textile at source and updating treatment technologies are made for future improvement.
AB - Faced with the challenges to deal with increasingly growing and ever diversified municipal solid waste (MSW), a series of waste directives have been published by European Commission to divert MSW from landfills to more sustainable management options. The presented study assessed the transition of MSW management in Nottingham, UK, since the enforcement of the EU Landfill Directive using a tool of combined materials flow analysis (MFA) and life cycle assessment (LCA). The results show that the MSW management system in Nottingham changed from a relatively simple landfill and energy from waste (EfW) mode to a complex, multi-technology mode. Improvements in waste reduction, material recycling, energy recovery, and landfill prevention have been made. As a positive result, the global warming potential (GWP) of the MSW management system reduced from 1076.0 kg CO2-eq./t of MSW in 2001/02 to 211.3 kg CO2-eq./t of MSW in 2016/17. Based on the results of MFA and LCA, recommendations on separating food waste and textile at source and updating treatment technologies are made for future improvement.
KW - Future improvement
KW - Global warming potential
KW - Life cycle assessment
KW - Material flow analysis
KW - Municipal solid waste
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-15-9605-6_6
DO - 10.1007/978-981-15-9605-6_6
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85097851667
SN - 9789811596049
T3 - Environmental Science and Engineering
SP - 77
EP - 92
BT - Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Resource Sustainability
A2 - Chan, Faith Ka
A2 - Chan, Hing Kai
A2 - Zhang, Tiantian
A2 - Xu, Ming
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - International Conference on Resource Sustainability - Sustainable Urbanisation in the BRI Era, icRS Urbanisation 2020
Y2 - 13 December 2020 through 15 December 2020
ER -
