LCA of beverage packaging systems

Researchers at the University of Pannonia in Hungary examined five different packaging materials during their whole life cycle. They focussed in detail on six bottle collection systems such as kerbside bin, kerbside bag, deposit-refund, combinations with thermal compression of plastic bottles and refill-bottles.
From the post-consumer bottle collection point of view, the kerbside bag showed the best results followed by deposit-refund system and kerbside containers. Even though the refilling of bottles leads to decreasing greenhouse gas emission, it became less significant after a certain number of times. An article about the research is published in the Journal of Cleaner Production.
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