TY - JOUR T1 - Comparison through a LCA evaluation analysis of food waste disposal options from the perspective of global warming and resource recovery. AU - Kim,Mi-Hyung, AU - Kim,Jung-Wk, Y1 - 2010/05/23/ PY - 2010/01/19/received PY - 2010/04/26/revised PY - 2010/04/27/accepted PY - 2010/6/29/entrez PY - 2010/6/29/pubmed PY - 2010/9/2/medline SP - 3998 EP - 4006 JF - The Science of the total environment JO - Sci Total Environ VL - 408 IS - 19 N2 - This study evaluated feed manufacturing including dry feeding and wet feeding, composting, and landfilling for food waste disposal options from the perspective of global warming and resource recovery. The method of the expanded system boundaries was employed in order to compare different by-products. The whole stages of disposal involved in the systems such as separate discharge, collection, transportation, treatment, and final disposal, were included in the system boundary and evaluated. The Global Warming Potential generated from 1tonne of food wastes for each disposal system was analyzed by the life cycle assessment method. The results showed that 200kg of CO(2)-eq could be produced from dry feeding process, 61kg of CO(2)-eq from wet feeding process, 123kg of CO(2)-eq from composting process, and 1010kg of CO(2)-eq from landfilling. Feed manufacturing and composting, the common treatment methods currently employed, have been known to be environment friendlier than other methods. However, this study shows that they can negatively affect the environment if their by-products are not appropriately utilized as intended. SN - 1879-1026 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/20580812/Comparison_through_a_LCA_evaluation_analysis_of_food_waste_disposal_options_from_the_perspective_of_global_warming_and_resource_recovery_ L2 - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0048-9697(10)00445-6 DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -