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Mehta, R. (author), Golkaram, M. (author)There is a major push by governments and value chain partners to move towards circular options for difficult-to-recycle post-consumer products such as waste mattresses.[1] In the Netherlands alone ~1.5 million mattresses are discarded yearly, of which majority (>60%) is incinerated.[2] A sustainable solution to recycle waste mattresses is...conference paper 2022
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Steubing, B. (author), de Koning, A. (author), Merciai, S. (author), Tukker, A. (author)Life cycle assessment (LCA) and environmentally extended input output analysis(EEIOA) are two widely used approaches to assess the environmental impacts of products and services with the aim of providing decision support. Here, we compare carbon footprint (CF) results for products and services in the ecoinvent 3.4 cut-off and the hybrid version...article 2022
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Bauer, C. (author), Treyer, K. (author), Antonini, C. (author), Bergerson, J. (author), Gazzani, M. (author), Gencer, E. (author), Gibbins, J. (author), Mazzotti, M. (author), McCoy, S.T. (author), McKenna, R. (author), Pietzcker, R. (author), Ravikumar, A.P. (author), Romano, M.C. (author), Ueckerdt, F. (author), Vente, J. (author), van der Spek, M. (author)Natural gas based hydrogen production with carbon capture and storage is referred to as blue hydrogen. If substantial amounts of CO2 from natural gas reforming are captured and permanently stored, such hydrogen could be a low-carbon energy carrier. However, recent research raises questions about the effective climate impacts of blue hydrogen...article 2022
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- Yang, X. (author), Hu, M. (author), Tukker, A. (author), Zhang, C. (author), Huo, T. (author), Steubing, B. (author) article 2022
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Dong, D. (author), Tukker, A. (author), Steubing, B. (author), van Oers, L. (author), Rechberger, H. (author), Alonso Aguilar-Hernandez, G. (author), Li, H. (author), van der Voet, E. (author)To conserve resources and enhance the environmental performance, China has launched the “Zero waste” concept, focused on reutilization of solid waste and recovery of materials, including copper. Although several studies have assessed the copper demand and recycling, there is a lack of understanding on how different waste management options would...article 2022
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Golkaram, M. (author), Mehta, R. (author), Taveau, M. (author), Schwarz, A. (author), Gankema, H. (author), Urbanus, J.H. (author), de Simon, L. (author), Cakir-Benthem, S. (author), van Harmelen, T. (author)One of the key challenges for plastics in a circular economy is its degradation during use, washing and reprocessing. The reduced quality of recycled plastic waste leads to its use in inferior applications. This study presents a novel quality model which incorporates degradation, degree of mixing and contaminations. The model estimates a single...article 2022
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Faber, G. (author), Ruttinger, A. (author), Strunge, T. (author), Langhorst, T. (author), van der Hulst, M.K. (author), Bensebaa, F. (author), Moni, S. (author), Tao, L. (author)Comparisons of emerging carbon capture and utilization (CCU) technologies with equivalent incumbent technologies are necessary to support technology developers and to help policy-makers design appropriate long-term incentives to mitigate climate change through the deployment of CCU. In particular, early-stage CCU technologies must prove their...article 2022
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van der Hulst, M.K. (author), Ottenbros, A.B. (author), van der Drift, B. (author), Ferjan, S. (author), van Harmelen, A.K. (author), Schwarz, A.E. (author), Worrell, E. (author), van Zelm, R. (author), Huijbregts, M.A.J. (author), Hauck, M. (author)Dealing with heterogeneous plastic waste – i.e., high polymer heterogeneity, additives, and contaminants – and lowering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from plastic production requires integrated solutions. Here, we quantified current and future GHG footprints of direct chemical conversion of heterogeneous post-consumer plastic waste feedstock to...article 2022
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Li, C. (author), Mogollon, J.M. (author), Tukker, A. (author), Steubing, B. (author)Continuous reduction in the levelized cost of energy is driving the rapid development of offshore wind energy (OWE). It is thus important to evaluate, from an environmental perspective, the implications of expanding OWE capacity on a global scale. Nevertheless, this assessment must take into account various scenarios for the growth of different...article 2022
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Pablo Sigüenza, C.P. (author), Cucurachi, S. (author), Tukker, A. (author)Among European countries, The Netherlands is boosting the transformation to a circular economy creat- ing and deploying circular business models across different sectors, including the home appliances sector. Although in recent years shared access-based business models have attracted the attention of the scien- tific community from a...article 2021
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de Oliveira Fernandes, M.A. (author), Keijzer, E. (author), van Leeuwen, S. (author), Kuindersma, P. (author), Melo, L. (author), Hinkema, M. (author), Gonçalves Gutierrez, K. (author)The construction sector is responsible for a substantial share of adverse environmental impacts from materials usage, waste generation, energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, the construction sector is a major creator of economic and societal value. Retrofitting existing residential buildings can contribute to the achievement...article 2021
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- Bizarro, D.E.G. (author), Steinmann, Z. (author), Nieuwenhuijse, I. (author), Keijzer, E. (author), Hauck, M. (author) article 2021
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Schwarz, A.E. (author), Ligthart, T.N. (author), Godoi Bizarro, D.E. (author), de Wild, P.J. (author), Vreugdenhil, B.J. (author), van Harmelen, A.K. (author)To ensure a circular economy for plastics, insights in the environmental impacts of recycling and optimal recycling choices for specific plastic polymers are crucial. This was obtained by determining the environmental performance of 10 selected recycling technologies with varying TRL levels, using the chemical properties of the top 25 produced...article 2021
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Alvarez, C.M. (author), Ligthart, T. (author)PurposeThis literature review aims to present the current methodologies that have been developed to perform a social life cycle assessment (sLCA) and to display the main differences among them. In addition to that, to identify the nexus between sLCA and circular economy (CE) and to what extent this life cycle technique has been involved within...article 2021
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Zhang, C. (author), Hu, M. (author), Laclau, B. (author), Garnesson, T. (author), Yang, X. (author), Tukker, A. (author)Buildings have become a major concern because of their high energy use and carbon emissions. Thus, a material efficient prefabricated concrete element (PCE) system was developed to incorporate construction and demolition waste as feedstock for residential building energy renovation by over-cladding the walls of old buildings. By conducting life...article 2021
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- Dong, D. (author), van Oers, L. (author), Tukker, A. (author), van der Voet, E. (author) article 2020
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- Mendoza Beltran, A. (author), Cox, B. (author), Mutel, C. (author), van Vuuren, D.P. (author), Font Vivancon, D. (author), Deetman, S. (author), Edelenbosch, O.Y. (author), Guinee, J. (author), Tukker, A. (author) article 2020
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Circular business models (CBMs) and their potential environmental benefits have been widely assessed by using life cycle assessment (LCA). However, most LCA studies consider static systems and assume instant and full technology adoption, limiting the analysis of the implications of circular transitions. Considering technology diffusion in LCA...article 2020