PMID- 24692456
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150128
LR  - 20150921
IS  - 1096-3669 (Electronic)
VI  - 32
IP  - 5
DP  - 2014 May
TI  - Environmental and economic analysis of end of life management options for an HDPE 
      product using a life cycle thinking approach.
PG  - 414-22
LID - 10.1177/0734242X14527334 [doi]
AB  - Manufacturers have been increasingly considering the implication of materials 
      used in commercial products and the management of such products at the end of 
      their useful lives (as waste or as post-consumer secondary materials). The 
      present work describes the application of the life cycle thinking approach to a 
      plastic product, specifically an anti-glare lamellae (used for road safety 
      applications) made with high-density polyethylene (HDPE). This study shows that 
      optimal environmental and economic outcomes associated with this product can be 
      realized by recovering the material at the end of its useful life (end of life, 
      EoL) and by using the recycled HDPE as a raw material in the production of new 
      similar products. The study confirmed the applicability of the life cycle 
      thinking approach by industry in sustainable products development, supporting the 
      development of robust environmental and economic guidelines.
FAU - Simoes, Carla L
AU  - Simoes CL
AD  - 1IPC - Institute for Polymers and Composites/I3N, Minho University, Guimaraes, 
      Portugal.
FAU - Pinto, Ligia M Costa
AU  - Pinto LM
FAU - Bernardo, C A
AU  - Bernardo CA
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20140401
PL  - England
TA  - Waste Manag Res
JT  - Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and 
      Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
JID - 9881064
RN  - 0 (Industrial Waste)
RN  - 9002-88-4 (Polyethylene)
SB  - IM
MH  - Incineration/economics
MH  - Industrial Waste/*analysis
MH  - Polyethylene/*analysis
MH  - Recycling/economics
MH  - Waste Disposal Facilities/economics
MH  - Waste Management/*economics/*methods
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - HDPE
OT  - Life cycle thinking
OT  - anti-glare lamellae
OT  - end of life materials management
OT  - life cycle assessment
OT  - life cycle costing
OT  - plastics
OT  - recycling
EDAT- 2014/04/03 06:00
MHDA- 2015/01/30 06:00
CRDT- 2014/04/03 06:00
PHST- 2014/04/03 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/04/03 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/01/30 06:00 [medline]
AID - 0734242X14527334 [pii]
AID - 10.1177/0734242X14527334 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Waste Manag Res. 2014 May;32(5):414-22. doi: 10.1177/0734242X14527334. Epub 2014 
      Apr 1.