Life cycle assessment of waste wood used for energy production – Methodology and case studies© Lehrstuhl fĂĽr Abfallverwertungstechnik und Abfallwirtschaft der Montanuniversität Leoben (11/2020)
To assess the sustainability along the whole value chain, life cycle-based methodologies have been developed over the last years. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) considers environmental impacts along supply chains, from extraction of raw materials to end-of-life of products (ASI 2006). The aim of this paper is to describe the use of LCA to assess the environmental impacts of the use of waste wood for energy production. Important methodological aspects on the use of LCA for the assessment of waste wood are presented using two different case studies from the H2020 projects STORY (Added value of STOrage in distribution sYstems) and TORERO (TORefying wood with Ethanol as a Renewable Output: large-scale demonstration).
Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Station in the Province of Salamanca© Infoenviro (10/2007)
The new Waste Treatment Centre in the Spanish province of Salamanca, dimensioned for a maximum treatment capacity of 170,000 t/year - sufficient to treat the entire municipal solid waste rest fraction generated in the province - was inaugurated in March, 2007.