Life-Cycle Analysis of Recycling and Recovery of Households Plastics Waste Packaging Materials

In the future one of the decisive criteria in selecting processes in the future for plastics packaging waste recovery from packaging wastes, apart from the cost, will be environmental compatibility. It is important to assess the environmental effects of these processes. To achieve this objective the environmental impact of mechanical and feedstock recycling and energy recovery has been audited and compared in terms of consumption of resources and environmental emission pollution potential.