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Environmental Impact Assessment of Beverage Containers

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  • Seo, Yong-Chil (Department of Industrial Environment and Health, Yonsei University) ;
  • Chung, Jae-Chun (Department 0f Environmental Science, Yonsei University) ;
  • Shim, Sang-Guel (Department of Industrial Environment and Health, Yonsei University) ;
  • Kwon, Dong-Myung (Department of Industrial Environment and Health, Yonsei University)
  • 서용칠 (연세대학교 산업환경학과) ;
  • 정재춘 (연세대학교 환경과학과) ;
  • 심상걸 (연세대학교 산업환경학과) ;
  • 권동명 (연세대학교 산업환경학과)
  • Published : 1997.06.01
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Abstract

Energy required, air emission, and solid waste generation are calculated with available foreign data ad domestic status using Life Cycle Analysis in order to compare the environmental impact of beverage containers such as PET bottle, aluminum can, glass bottle, and paper pack. Glass bottles are found to be the worst acceptability when considering only recycling rate of glass cullet, however it becomme the best when the refill(reuse) rate of glass bottles is accounted into. To assess tile current and future environmental impact of beverage containers, energy required, air emission, solid waste generation of current data and recycling goals are compared. As a result of the study, recycling of each containers and the reuse of glass bottles must be increased by governmental enforcement to reduce the environmental impacts by beverage containers. Further study on this subject using detailed LCA(life cycle assessment) data should be implemented for the exact environmental and economic assessment.

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