TY - GEN
T1 - Environmental impact analysis of polyethylene terephthalate plastic recycling process using life-cycle assessment
AU - Rahman, Irvanu
AU - Gandasasmita, Andrea Eugenia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024/2/6
Y1 - 2024/2/6
N2 - Indonesia faces challenging plastic waste management for post-consumer polyethylene terephthalate (PET) as most of the waste ended up being openly burned and landfilled. Despite the Indonesian government has doubled the recycling capacity, the understanding towards current recycling practice and its environmental impacts remains limited. This study employs life cycle assessment to identify and measure the amount of materials and energy used and quantify all the released substances impacting the environment from the production of recycled PET in a company. The assessment use resource inventory analysis for raw materials, energy, and waste production across nineteen processes and exhibits the result in four indicators: global warming, acidification, eutrophication, and smog formation. Comparing with the best practice performance, the recycling company's result presents two main factors contributing to the extensive environmental impact from current PET production that requires improvement to lower its footprints to the nature.
AB - Indonesia faces challenging plastic waste management for post-consumer polyethylene terephthalate (PET) as most of the waste ended up being openly burned and landfilled. Despite the Indonesian government has doubled the recycling capacity, the understanding towards current recycling practice and its environmental impacts remains limited. This study employs life cycle assessment to identify and measure the amount of materials and energy used and quantify all the released substances impacting the environment from the production of recycled PET in a company. The assessment use resource inventory analysis for raw materials, energy, and waste production across nineteen processes and exhibits the result in four indicators: global warming, acidification, eutrophication, and smog formation. Comparing with the best practice performance, the recycling company's result presents two main factors contributing to the extensive environmental impact from current PET production that requires improvement to lower its footprints to the nature.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85185780797&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1063/5.0144971
DO - 10.1063/5.0144971
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85185780797
T3 - AIP Conference Proceedings
BT - AIP Conference Proceedings
A2 - Kusuma, Andyka
A2 - Fatriansyah, Jaka Fajar
A2 - Dhelika, Radon
A2 - Pratama, Mochamad Adhiraga
A2 - Irwansyah, Ridho
A2 - Maknun, Imam Jauhari
A2 - Putra, Wahyuaji Narottama
A2 - Ardi, Romadhani
A2 - Harwahyu, Ruki
A2 - Harahap, Yulia Nurliani
A2 - Lischer, Kenny
PB - American Institute of Physics Inc.
T2 - 17th International Conference on Quality in Research, QiR 2021 in conjunction with the International Tropical Renewable Energy Conference 2021, I-Trec 2021 and the 2nd AUN-SCUD International Conference, CAIC-SIUD
Y2 - 13 October 2021 through 15 October 2021
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