Environmental impact when biofuels are used for materials road transport: a Carbon Footprint approach

EcoBalance 2010, The 9th International Conference on EcoBalance, Manuscripts, p. 454-45

Quantified innovation in ICT: Life Cycle Assessment approach applied to two generations of home gateways

Home Gateways represent a large category of products including Customer Premises Equipment such as DSL CPEs, cable CPEs, optical network termination CPEs and ethernet routers. In the present study, environmental and energy assessment was produced in terms of LCA application to two different generations of ADSL basic modems, designed and commercialized in 2007 and 2011. The study show how the environmental impacts of the oldest generation of home gateways can be reduced using principles of ecodesign for the external chassis and, most important, the significant improvement induced by the upgrading of the printed circuit board, which allowed a better efficiency during the use phase, thanks to the new software and hardware layout. Furthermore, it is given an overview of the possible end of life scenarios, including a sensitivity analysis focused on the amount of recovered or recycled materials

Sustainability perspectives when crops use is implemented in different sectors: an LCA approach

The 10th International Conference on EcoBalance, p. 9-1

Bioplastics in food packaging field: Ecodesign approach and critical issues

Bioplastics are assuming a crescent role in food packaging sector thanks to an increasing interest in sustainability. The aim of this study is to evaluate the environmental performance of the main bioplastics available on the food packaging market by adopting the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology. Furthermore, an Ecodesign approach has been adopted to highlight critical issues in the packaging sector, when bioplastics are used instead of traditional polymers