Title | : | Assessment of Environmental Impact by Grocery Shopping Bags |
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Author | : | Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu & Yi Li |
Release | : | 2013-09-24 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Environmental Engineering, Books, Professional & Technical, Engineering, Business & Personal Finance, Management & Leadership, Science & Nature |
Size | : | 3510442 |
This book details the different types of shopping bags used for grocery purposes and their manufacturing processes; various impacts made by different grocery shopping bags in their entire life cycle from cradle to grave stages; importance of consumer behaviour in determining the life cycle impact of shopping bags with the case study of the consumer behaviour studied in different countries for various shopping bags; quantification of environmental impact, ecological sustainability and recyclability potential of various raw materials used for shopping bags; functional and ecological properties of various shopping bags and their assessment; core concept and the theoretical framework of Eco-functional Assessment Methodology; Eco-functional assessment of various grocery shopping bags; quantification of the eco-functional scores of various shopping bags; reduction of environmental impacts of various grocery shopping bags |