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Waste Indicators

Contents

Preface
   
Summary and conclusions
   
1 Waste indicators - trial run
1.1 Preliminary calculations of waste indicators
1.2 Calculating indicators for the entire waste management system
    
2 From waste quantities to environmental impacts
2.1 Present indicators for waste management
2.1.1 Existing statistics on waste
2.1.2 Purpose of new indicators
2.2 Indicators developed for LCA
2.2.1 Environment and resource indicators in EDIP
2.2.2 Aggregation of environment and resource parameters in EDIP
2.3 New indicators in the field of waste management
2.3.1 Basic principle for indicator calculation
2.3.2 Accessible data
2.3.3 Presentation of results
2.3.4 Which indicators are relevant?
   
3 Screening of environment and resource issues in waste management
3.1 Important parameters for all fractions
3.2 Assessment of data for all fractions
3.3 Conclusions on choice of indicators
   
4 Calculation method and assumptions
4.1 Calculation method and assumptions for indicators
4.1.1 Material fractions and waste quantities
4.1.2 LCA data and allocation of recycled materials
4.2 New LCA data
4.2.1 Normalised resource consumption
4.2.2 Normalisation of energy consumption
4.2.3 Landfill requirement
4.3 Calculation in practice
   
5 Results of calculations
5.1 Waste quantities for calculations
5.2 Presentation of calculation factors
5.2.1 Resource factors
5.2.2 Energy factors
5.2.3 Landfill factors
5.2.4 Differences between factors for the three materials
5.3 Indicators for total impact from waste (Model A)
5.4 Indicators with focus on savings realised (Model B)
5.4.1 Value of recycled materials and potential savings
5.4.2 Potential savings from optimisation of waste management
5.4.3 Conclusion
    
6 Use of indicators in the entire waste management field
6.1.1 Time required to calculated life-cycle-based factors
6.2 Time required to estimate quantities of material fractions
6.2.1 Scope of status
6.2.2 Annual calculation of indicators
6.2.3 Overall assessment of scope of update
   
7 Discussion
7.1 Purpose of indicator calculation
7.2 Assessment methods
7.2.1 Deficiencies in LCA data basis
7.3 Assessment of data basis
7.4 Conclusions and recommendations
   
8 Glossary
8.1 Life-cycle terms
8.2 Indicator parameters
8.3 Waste terms
   
9 References
   
Appendix A: Screening of waste
   
Appendix B: Time required for comprehensive mapping
   
Appendix C: Assumptions for calculations
    
Appendix D: Data and results of calculations (not translated)

 

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