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Environmental Impact Assessment of Solid Waste to Energy Technologies and Their Perspectives in Australia by Behnam Dastjerdi; Vladimir Strezov; Ravinder Kumar; Masud Behnia is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.

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The study assessed the environmental impacts of landfilling, anaerobic digestion and incineration technologies and investigated the effect of the replaced source of electricity on the environmental impacts of these waste to energy (WtE) technologies. Data published in the national pollutant inventories and ReCiPe impact assessment method were employed in this study. The study showed that electricity generation through incineration had the highest impacts on human health and ecosystems, followed by landfilling. Compared to the electricity of the Australian national grid, electricity generated from all three WtE technologies have a lower environmental impact. The results revealed that global warming and fine particulate matter formation with more than 97.6% contribution were the main impact factors for human health, while terrestrial acidification, global warming and ozone formation were contributing to more than 99% of the impacts to ecosystems. Global warming was the most impactful category on human health and ecosystems from incineration with over 85% contribution to both endpoint categories. Incineration revealed significantly higher avoided global warming impacts to human health

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Author

Behnam Dastjerdi; Vladimir Strezov; Ravinder Kumar; Masud Behnia

Publisher

MDPI AG

Published

2022

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Social Sciences)