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In order to quantify and compare the environmental impacts caused by several
modern household waste management strategies in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg,
Germany, the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) cradle-to-grave analysis, which accounts for the
material and energy flows during the life cycle of a product or service, has been applied. In the
case of household wastes, the environmental impacts through out the waste management chain
correspond to the sum of the impacts that arise during the end-of-life operations of each product
that leaves households as waste. The LCA carried out included the evaluation of the direct
impacts arising from household waste management strategies, as well as the benefits obtained
through the substitution of raw material and primary energy sources. The operations evaluated
include the collection and transportation of wastes, material and energetic recovery, anaerobic
digestion, residual waste treatment and final disposal. For the treatment of residual waste,
incineration, mechanical-biological treatment, and mechanical biological stabilization were
modeled, since they represent the state of the art in the Federal Republic of Germany in terms of
waste treatment technologies.
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