Przemysl Chemiczny, Vol.98, No.10, 1662-1667, 2019
Impact of the plastic bottle production on the natural environment. Part 1. Application of the ReCiPe 2016 assessment method to identify environmental problems
Effect of the process for prodn. of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) bottles on the natural environment was evaluated by the life cycle anal. The functional unit comprised a total of 1000 PET 1 L bottles. The adopted system included steps from the delivery of preforms to the prodn. plant, their properly shaping and forming the beverage bottles. Processes for the beverage bottling, labeling, storage, distribution and recyclingwere were excluded. The LCA anal. was performed by using the com. Pre Consultants SimaPro 8.4.0. program. The ReCiPe 2016 method was selected for the interpretation of lists of impacts.