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نوع المنشور

بحث أصيل

المؤلفون

النص الكامل

تحميل

For a long period of time, Palestine has witnessed significantly

noticeable shortages and scarcities of natural resources, namely, water

and energy resources. Many industries adversely contribute in the

continuous consumption and depletion of such natural resources. Among

these, there are the packaging materials industries producing plastic and

metal packaging containers for holding liquid products. Examples of

such containers are tin and plastic containers used for packaging and

storing olive oil in Palestine. These primary two packaging systems differ

in their environmental impacts during the stages of processing,

manufacturing, distribution, transportation, usage and disposal. More

specifically, they differ in consumption of natural resources such as

water, energy, and land use (solid wastes generation), as well as in their

contribution to human toxicity and health problems (dust) and resulted

industrial noise. This work aims at evaluating and comparing the

potential environmental impacts of tin and plastic containers of olive oil

via employing life cycle assessment (LCA) based on International

Standardization Organization (ISO) standards (namely, ISO 14040, ISO

14041, ISO14042, and ISO 14043). The life cycle inventory and impact

assessments considered the above-mentioned significant environmental domains (water, energy, solid waste, dust and industrial noise) in

conducting the LCA. Within the boundaries of both systems, the LCA

analysis showed that tin containers (16 Ls) outperformed plastic

containers (16 L) in terms of having less environmental impacts.

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