The civic amenity sites are facilities for selective collection where citizens have to remove those special domestic wastes that require to be managed apart from other household waste (furniture, rubble, electrical appliances, ...

Several products with different characteristics and uses are usually obtained from oil refining process (olefins, propane, butane, gasoline, kerosene, diesel, paraffin, asphalt, etc.). Allocation of proportional impacts ...

Oil hydrotreating units in refineries are aimed at reducing the sulfur content of fuels to accomplish standard particular specifications. However, this process is currently one of the best available technologies to produce ...

The term ‘impact of land use’ has been used in the field of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to denote environmental impacts relating to the occupation and physical transformation of land areas. This paper presents a detailed ...

Spain is one of the major producers of construction and demolition (C&D) waste in the European Union, however, presents a low level of C&D waste recovery (about 17%) which is well below the target level established by the ...

The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology is a comprehensive environmental impact assessment tool whose aim is to evaluate the most relevant environmental impacts of a product or service along its life cycle. However, ...

The automotive sector, given the need to reduce energy demand and environmental impact of vehicles, needs to reduce the weight of vehicles. Lightweighting strategy to implement is based on the massive use of plastics and ...