Last modified: 2014-09-11
Abstract
making in waste management policy and planning throughout Europe. Most
of the existing software tools are either too general in scope, or not flexible
enough. The goal of the LIFE+ project ‘FENIX – Giving Packaging a New
Life’ was to create an ad-hoc software tool for evaluating alternative
scenarios for the management of post-consumer packaging waste. Now
finalized, such tool allows a large degree of flexibility, all the while
ensuring the physical soundness of the underlying model, by enforcing a
rigorous mass balance, and by pre-defining the most representative
processes and technologies among which the user is allowed to choose.
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