Assessment of Environmental Impact by Grocery Shopping Bags [electronic resource] : An Eco-Functional Approach / by Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu, Yi Li.

9789814560207

Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2014.

XI, 162 p. 35 illus., 16 illus. in color. online resource.

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This book details the different types of shopping bags used for grocery purposes and their manufacturing processes; various impacts made by different grocery shopping bags in their entire life cycle from cradle to grave stages; importance of consumer behaviour in determining the life cycle impact of shopping bags with the case study of the consumer behaviour studied in different countries for various shopping bags; quantification of environmental impact, ecological sustainability and recyclability potential of various raw materials used for shopping bags; functional and ecological properties of various shopping bags and their assessment; core concept and the theoretical framework of Eco-functional Assessment Methodology; Eco-functional assessment of various grocery shopping bags; quantification of the eco-functional scores of various shopping bags; reduction of environmental impacts of various grocery shopping bags

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October 07, 2013