Life Cycle Assessment on the Reuse of Glass Bottles 


Vol. 15,  No. 3, pp. 224-230, Sep.  2009


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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been studied on the reuse of glass bottles. The system boundary in this study encompassed from gate to gate such as production and transportation. A 360 mL volume of a glass bottle was selected as the functional unit. The environmental impact assessments was studied on 6 categories including abiotic resource depletion, acidification, eutrophication, global warming, ozone depletion, and photochemical oxidant creation. The results showed that the most significant impact categories were abiotic resource depletion (48.63%) and global warming (46.27%), and the rest categories revealed insignificant impacts. In the whole system, the chemicals used for the new bottle production revealed the major contribution to the environmental impacts (71.24%), followed by the use of electricity (16.74%) and transportation (11.8%). In addition, the environmental impact of sodium silicate to be put into the stage of the new bottle production was found to be 45.68%, causing severe influence on abiotic resource depletion and global warming.

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[IEEE Style]

K. HJ, K. YS, C. YG, C. CK, B. SH, K. YW, "Life Cycle Assessment on the Reuse of Glass Bottles," Clean Technology, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 224-230, 2009. DOI: .

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Kim HJ, Kwon YS, Choi YG, Chung CK, Baek SH, and Kim YW. 2009. Life Cycle Assessment on the Reuse of Glass Bottles. Clean Technology, 15, 3, (2009), 224-230. DOI: .

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