期刊
SUSTAINABILITY
卷 13, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su13031040
关键词
circularity; material circularity indicator; life cycle assessment; trade-offs; alkaline batteries
资金
- University of Waterloo
- University of Bordeaux under International Doctoral School in Functional Materials (IDS-FunMat)
This study explores the application of circularity strategies in improving resource use and recovery and their potential impact on the environment, evaluating their effectiveness through a combination of MCI and LCA methods. The research shows that improving circularity generally reduces environmental impacts, but the results vary significantly among different scenarios. It discusses the design and scope of MCI use and its combination with LCA, drawing on the opportunities of the new comparative approach based on observations from a case study.
The application of circularity strategies to improve resource use and recovery should be considered with their potential impacts on the environment. Their effectiveness could be evaluated by combining the material circularity indicator (MCI) and life cycle assessment (LCA) methods. Environmental trade-offs may be underestimated for some strategies given that the loss of material quality with recycling has not been captured within the methodological framework of MCI. The current study demonstrates how significantly this limitation may influence the trade-offs in a case study. The methods are applied to several scenarios for the circularity improvement of alkaline batteries. The joint interpretation of MCI and LCA scores is carried out using waterfall charts and normalized indicator scores. Results suggest that improving circularity generally reduces environmental impacts, although there is large variability among two sets of values. For example, an increase of MCI score by 14% for two recycling scenarios translates to a small reduction of impacts in one case (0.06-1.64%) and a large reduction in another (9.84-56.82%). Observations from the case study are used to discuss the design and scope of MCI use and its combining with LCA. Lastly, we draw on the opportunities of the new comparative approach.
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