2E Reclamation Solutions http://www.2ereclamation.com Reclaiming Tomorrow, Today Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:07:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Environmental Impacts From Carpet Discards Management Methods: Preliminary Results http://www.2ereclamation.com/environmental-impacts-from-carpet-discards/ http://www.2ereclamation.com/environmental-impacts-from-carpet-discards/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:07:46 +0000 admin http://www.2ereclamation.com/?p=333 This report compares  preliminary estimates for  the  climate change impacts of four methods currently used to manage  carpet discards generated by  households  and  construction and demolition (C&D) activities:

  1. Recycle via mechanical and/or chemical methods, with or without the use of heat, into constituents which can be used for manufacturing new carpet components or other products such as automobile body parts.
  2. Recover energy via combustion in an industrial boiler as a substitute for coal.
  3. Recover energy via combustion in a waste-to-energy (WTE) incineration facility.
  4. Landfill.

This report  also discusses very preliminary results for six other categories of environmental impacts for scrap carpet recycling:

  • Acidification
  • Eutrophication
  • Human Health – Particulates
  • Human Health – Toxicity
  • Human Health – Carcinogenicity
  • Ecosystems Toxicity

Read the full Article (PDF)

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