caa a22 4500 445385200 CHVBK 20180317143030.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10924-011-0343-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10924-011-0343-z Piemonte V. Department of Chemical Engineering Materials and Environment, University of Rome "La Sapienza”, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184, Rome, Italy aut Bioplastic Wastes: The Best Final Disposition for Energy Saving [Elektronische Daten] [V. Piemonte] The pressing need to reduce the consumption of non-renewable resources and the emission of greenhouse gases into the environment, in recent decades has led to the wide development of bio-based plastics that are produced from renewable sources, such as corn, wheat, oil seeds etc. Actually, the most important bio-based plastics on the market are the poly(lactic acid) (PLA) produced from Nature Works (USA) and the Mater-Bi, a starch based bioplastics, made from Novamont (Italy). The aim of this work is not only to assess the actual energy and greenhouse gases (GHGs) savings resulting from the production of bioplastics, compared with the production of conventional plastics, but also to analyze what might be the best final disposition of bioplastic wastes in order to maximize the energy saving. Therefore, by using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology, LCAs cradle to gate and cradle to grave were carried out both for PLA and Mater-Bi, taking into consideration as final scenarios composting, incineration, anaerobic digestion and mechanical recycling processes. The work demonstrates how incineration, composting and anaerobic digestion processes are clearly under-performing, from an environmental point of view, with respect to the mechanical recycling process. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Bioplastics nationallicence Energy saving nationallicence Recycling nationallicence Environmental protection nationallicence LCA nationallicence Journal of Polymers and the Environment Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 19/4(2011-12-01), 988-994 1566-2543 19:4<988 2011 19 10924 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10924-011-0343-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10924-011-0343-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Piemonte V. Department of Chemical Engineering Materials and Environment, University of Rome "La Sapienza”, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184, Rome, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Polymers and the Environment Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 19/4(2011-12-01), 988-994 1566-2543 19:4<988 2011 19 10924 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer