Assessment of environmental impact by grocery shopping bags [electronic resource] : an eco-functional approach / Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu, Yi Li.

Assessment of environmental impact by grocery shopping bags [electronic resource] : an eco-functional approach / Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu, Yi Li.

9789814560207 electronic book
9814560200 electronic book
9789814560191

Singapore : Springer, [2013?]

©2014

English

1 online resource (xi, 162 pages) : illustrations (some color).

10.1007/978-981-4560-20-7 doi

TS198.B3

676/.33

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

Includes bibliographical references.

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 1, 2013).

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