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MATERIALS
Volume 14, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma14164552
Keywords
life cycle assessment; plastic bottles; environmental impact; quality analysis
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The article discusses the environmental impact of blow molding machine used in bottle production, focusing on marine aquatic ecotoxicity. Life cycle assessment analysis was conducted using SimaPro 8.4.0 software. Among all impact categories, marine aquatic ecotoxicity showed the highest potential harmful effects.
The article characterizes selected issues related to the method of performing environmental impact analyses. Particular attention was paid to the need for identifying environmental effects associated with the process of shaping beverage bottles. This study concerns the analysis of selected stages of the machine's life cycle environmental impact in the specific case of the blow molding machine used in the production of bottles. Life cycle assessment analysis was performed using the SimaPro 8.4.0 software (The Dutch Company Pre Consultants). The CML 2 and ReCiPe2016 methods were chosen to interpret the lists of chemical emissions. Impact categories specific to the CML 2 model are: abiotic depletion, acidification, eutrophication, global warming, ozone layer depletion, human toxicity, fresh water aquatic ecotoxicity, marine aquatic ecotoxicity, terrestrial ecotoxicity, and photochemical oxidation. Among all the considered impact categories, marine aquatic ecotoxicity was characterized by the highest level of potential harmful effects occurring during the bottle production process. A new aspect of the research is to provide updated and more detailed geographic data on Polish bottle production.
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