Critical aspects in the life cycle assessment (LCA) of bio-based materials – Reviewing methodologies and deriving recommendations

By P. Pawelzik, M. Carus, J. Hotchkiss, R. Narayan, S. Selke, M. Wellisch, M. Weiss, B. Wicke, Martin K. Patel. 2013

281 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/0fb8e123e52c0fef8bf9768a2fa3f0f7c5f4f078

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• Life Cycle Inventory and Impact Assessment Data for 2014 Ingeo™ Polylactide Production (2015, unknown): “16 Since the carbon content of PLA is 0.5 kg/kg PLA, the net carbon dioxide uptake should be 0.5/12 · 44 = 1.83 kg CO 2 (where 12 is the molecular weight of C, and 44 is the molecular weight of CO 2 ).”