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Mitigating greenhouse gases emissions in processing fossil carbon containing industrial waste
Summary
Researchers assessed best available techniques (BAT) for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from waste treatment of fossil carbon-containing materials including oil, plastic, and rubber. The analysis found that recycling is the primary recommended method, and that effective GHG mitigation policy requires integrating waste management with full product life-cycle optimization.
The article assesses the Best Available Techniques for the methods of reduction of greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions in the waste treatment sector, that includes oil, plastic and rubber materials. The certain GHG emissions sources were shown and an attention is paid to the economic feasibility of specified methods in different places. It was shown, that for GHG mitigation policy, waste-management should be complied with the product life-cycle optimization, while recycling is considered as initially the best available method. The article is based on methods of scaling and statistical generalization. The data was obtained from official resources, including Reference Documents on the Best Available Techniques, National Inventory of GHG and from scientific publications. It was intended with full agreement, that resource efficiency enhancement relevantly should be in top priority of environmental and economic regulation.
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