CONSEQUENTIAL LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF END-OF-LIFE WOOD PARTICLEBOARDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR PUBLIC POLICY-MAKING SUPPORT
Mélanie Guiton, Daryna Panasiuk, Enrico Benetto, Edouard Carteron, Sébastien Zinck
Last modified: 2014-09-11
Abstract
At the European level an important stock of particleboards (PB) from end-of-life furniture is currently managed without considering its potential as secondary resource. In France the Grenelle 2 policy recently introduced the principle of “extended producer responsibility”, which fostered public policy to reorganize management of end-of-life PB. The ADEME (French EPA) has commissioned a study to assess the current management system and to propose alternatives. In order to assess these alternatives from an environmental point of view, a Consequential Life Cycle Assessment (cLCA) of several prospective scenarios was carried out. Results demonstrated the added-value of assessing the environmental impacts of a global management system in the associated macro-economic environment, and the importance of a precise definition of the policy context.
Keywords
Consequential LCA; Policy-making; Wood resources; End of life management
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