Application of Life Cycle Assessment for Cleaner Production of Paper Products

종이제품의 청정생산을 위한 LCA기법의 적용

  • Hwang, Yong-Woo (Department of Environmental Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • Jo, Byoung-Muk (Department of Paper Science and Engineering, Kangwon National University) ;
  • Kim, Hyoung-Jin (Department of Forest Products, Kookmin University) ;
  • Park, Kwang-Ho (Department of Environmental Engineering, Inha University)
  • Published : 2002.11.07

Abstract

In this study, Life Cycle Assessment method has been carried out the Corrugated board box in considering environmental aspects by quantifying the environmental emission and assessing its environmental impact potential. The system boundary in this study is selected from cradle to gate stage(raw material acquisition, raw material production and product manufacturing) of the paper product. To evaluate the environmental impact potential, impact categories are divided into 8 categories. As a results, abiotic resource depletion of the impact categories has the largest contribution to the total impact potential as 31.02% of total, Next were continued ecotoxicity having a contribution of 27.17%. In the life cycle, environmental impacts from law material production stage were contributed largely as 80.78%.

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