Review of life cycle assessment and cost-benefit analysis on

2,42
MB the recovery and disposal of paper and cardboard: Paper and

160
stron cardboard — recovery or disposal?

5587
ID European Environment Agency

2006
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Contents

Preface 3

1 Executive summary.6

1.1 Background. 6

1.2 Summary of the LCA review 7

1.3 Summary of the CBA review 8

1.4 Overall conclusion, LCA and CBA reviews10

REVIEW OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT

Summary. 14

1 Introduction17

1.1 Background17

1.2 Objective and scope of the study.17

1.3 Main activities carried out in the study.17

2 Inventory of existing studies19

2.1 Literature basis.19

3 Framework for the assessment of the LCA studies21

3.1 Selection of the LCA studies21

3.2 Selected studies24

3.3 Criteria used for the analysis of the LCA studies27

4 Results and conclusions32

4.1 Justification and transparency of the key assumptions in the LCA studies32

4.2 Distribution of the results of the reviewed LCAs.33

4.3 Recycling versus landfilling.34

4.4 Recycling versus incineration44

4.5 Significance of key assumptions on the outcome of the study46

5 Conclusions and outlook.51

5.1 Conclusions51

5.2 Outlook52

Annex 1: Complete list of LCA references55

Annex 2: Complete list of contacts established with institutions in Europe.63

Annex 3: Description of the processing of used paper.65

Annex 4: Summary matrices of the analysed LCA studies68

Annex 5: Result tables. 81

Contents

Paper and cardboard — recovery or disposal?

REVIEW OF COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS

1 Introduction92

1.1 Objectives92

1.2 Approach and methodology92

2 CBA methodology94

3 Presentation of four guidelines.97

4 Inventory of existing CBA studies. 100

5 Methodology for the review101

5.1 Criteria used to select the CBA studies.101

5.2 Selected studies101

5.3 Criteria used for the review of CBA studies.106

6 Results and discussion108

6.1 Review of objectives and system delimitation108

6.2 Environmental review110

6.3 Economic review.121

7 Conclusions and outlook.130

7.1 Analysis of system delimitation and methodology130

7.2 Similarities in assumptions and conclusions131

7.3 Essential assumptions for the outcome of the studies.131

7.4 Outlook132

Annex 1: References. 134

Annex 2: Complete list of contacts established with institutions in Europe.140

Annex 3: Scenarios and conclusions 141

Annex 4: Inclusion of 15 key criteria. 143

Annex 5: Economic conclusions in studies. 144

Annex 6: Presentation of the four guidelines. 150