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Life cycle assessment of plastic waste into furniture using open LCA software

Plastic waste management is one of the most severe environmental issues confronting municipalities worldwide, and it is the most serious environmental issue in Malaysia. Furniture gains attention in the life cycle assessment (LCA) of a net-zero energy building. It was responsible for 10% of the buil...

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Main Authors: Nurul Shahadahtul Afizah Asman1, Mary B. Raymond, Habib Musa Mohamad, Nurmin Bolong
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Language:English
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Published: e-VIBS, Faculty of Science and Natural Resources 2023
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TS155-194 Production management. Operations management
TS840-915 Wood products. Furniture
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spelling my.ums.eprints.376722023-11-27T01:36:43Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/37672/ Life cycle assessment of plastic waste into furniture using open LCA software Nurul Shahadahtul Afizah Asman1 Mary B. Raymond Habib Musa Mohamad Nurmin Bolong TS155-194 Production management. Operations management TS840-915 Wood products. Furniture Plastic waste management is one of the most severe environmental issues confronting municipalities worldwide, and it is the most serious environmental issue in Malaysia. Furniture gains attention in the life cycle assessment (LCA) of a net-zero energy building. It was responsible for 10% of the building's impact on global warming and nonrenewable energy demand. Therefore, it shall be considered in the building's design. This study evaluates the environmental effects of recycled high-density polyethylene (HDPE) eco-furniture using the Open LCA software. The scope of the study considered the cradle-to-gate boundary of recycling and manufacturing 1 kg of the eco-furniture functional unit. This paper assesses the LCA through Open LCA in obtaining the environmental impact of waste-to-wealth product generation. Primary data (amount of plastic waste, electricity, emission, and water) were gathered in a local recycling centre, EZ plast Plastic, data from the European Life Cycle Data database and data from a previous study for the electricity. In addition, the CML Baseline impact method, readily available in the Eco Invent LCIA database, is employed to determine plastic waste performance in their impact categories. Nine environmental impact categories were considered. The result shows that the consumption of electricity and HDPE during the manufacture of eco-furniture resulted in the most significant amount of environmental loading, up to 78% to 90% on all the impact categories. e-VIBS, Faculty of Science and Natural Resources 2023 Article NonPeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/37672/1/ABSTRACT.pdf text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/37672/2/FULL%20TEXT.pdf Nurul Shahadahtul Afizah Asman1 and Mary B. Raymond and Habib Musa Mohamad and Nurmin Bolong (2023) Life cycle assessment of plastic waste into furniture using open LCA software. Transactions on Science and Technology, 10 (2-2). pp. 88-94. ISSN 2289-8786
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language English
English
topic TS155-194 Production management. Operations management
TS840-915 Wood products. Furniture
spellingShingle TS155-194 Production management. Operations management
TS840-915 Wood products. Furniture
Nurul Shahadahtul Afizah Asman1
Mary B. Raymond
Habib Musa Mohamad
Nurmin Bolong
Life cycle assessment of plastic waste into furniture using open LCA software
description Plastic waste management is one of the most severe environmental issues confronting municipalities worldwide, and it is the most serious environmental issue in Malaysia. Furniture gains attention in the life cycle assessment (LCA) of a net-zero energy building. It was responsible for 10% of the building's impact on global warming and nonrenewable energy demand. Therefore, it shall be considered in the building's design. This study evaluates the environmental effects of recycled high-density polyethylene (HDPE) eco-furniture using the Open LCA software. The scope of the study considered the cradle-to-gate boundary of recycling and manufacturing 1 kg of the eco-furniture functional unit. This paper assesses the LCA through Open LCA in obtaining the environmental impact of waste-to-wealth product generation. Primary data (amount of plastic waste, electricity, emission, and water) were gathered in a local recycling centre, EZ plast Plastic, data from the European Life Cycle Data database and data from a previous study for the electricity. In addition, the CML Baseline impact method, readily available in the Eco Invent LCIA database, is employed to determine plastic waste performance in their impact categories. Nine environmental impact categories were considered. The result shows that the consumption of electricity and HDPE during the manufacture of eco-furniture resulted in the most significant amount of environmental loading, up to 78% to 90% on all the impact categories.
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author Nurul Shahadahtul Afizah Asman1
Mary B. Raymond
Habib Musa Mohamad
Nurmin Bolong
author_facet Nurul Shahadahtul Afizah Asman1
Mary B. Raymond
Habib Musa Mohamad
Nurmin Bolong
author_sort Nurul Shahadahtul Afizah Asman1
title Life cycle assessment of plastic waste into furniture using open LCA software
title_short Life cycle assessment of plastic waste into furniture using open LCA software
title_full Life cycle assessment of plastic waste into furniture using open LCA software
title_fullStr Life cycle assessment of plastic waste into furniture using open LCA software
title_full_unstemmed Life cycle assessment of plastic waste into furniture using open LCA software
title_sort life cycle assessment of plastic waste into furniture using open lca software
publisher e-VIBS, Faculty of Science and Natural Resources
publishDate 2023
url https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/37672/1/ABSTRACT.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/37672/2/FULL%20TEXT.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/37672/
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