title: Modelling of environmental impacts from biological treatment of organic municipal waste in EASEWASTE.
abstract: The waste-LCA model EASEWASTE quantifies potential environmental effects from biological treatment of organic waste, based on mass and energy flows, emissions to air, water, soil and groundwater as well as effects from upstream and downstream processes. Default technologies for composting, anaerobic digestion and combinations hereof are available in the model, but the user can change all key parameters in the biological treatment module so that specific local plants and processes can be modelled. EASEWASTE is one of the newest waste LCA models and the biological treatment module was built partly on features of earlier waste-LCA models, but offers additional facilities, more flexibility, transparency and user-friendliness. The paper presents the main features of the module and provides some examples illustrating the capability of the model in environmentally assessing and discriminating the environmental performance of alternative biological treatment technologies in relation to their mass flows, energy consumption, gaseous emissions, biogas recovery and compost/digestate utilization.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. alb@env.dtu.dk
authors.forename: Alessio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Boldrin
authors.forename: Trine Lund
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Neidel
authors.forename: Anders
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Damgaard
authors.forename: Gurbakhash S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Bhander
authors.forename: Jacob
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Møller
authors.forename: Thomas H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Christensen
mesh_terms: D000693:Anaerobiosis; D001688:Biological Products / Q000032:analysis* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D002947:Cities; D004777:Environment; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D018505:Waste Management / Q000379:methods*; D014866:Waste Products / Q000032:analysis* / Q000145:classification
chemical_list: D001688:Biological Products; D014866:Waste Products