Systems evaluation of integrated treatment and recycling system forpost-use electric home appliances

摘要

A new recycling plant for post-use electric home appliances wasconstructed and is currently under demonstration. The environmentalperformance of the new recycling scenario was assessed by means of LCAin comparison with those of conventional recycling/disposal scenarios.The conventional scenarios selected were a shredding system with ironrecovery and landfilling without recovery of valuable materials. It isconcluded that the proposed scenario using the new recycling plantsignificantly reduces environmental burdens compared with theconventional options. Also a framework of the systems evaluationincluding materials balance simulation and treatment cost estimation isexplained