Title :
An Assessment Model on Green Degree of Biodegradable Packaging Materials
Author :
Zuo Xiaoming ; Xu Zhaomei
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Mech. Eng., Huaiyin Inst. of Technol., Huaian, China
Abstract :
An assessment model of green degree of biodegradable packaging materials is built. The first-order assessment indexes are composed of environmental properties, energy properties, resource properties and economy and the second order assessment index are made up of pollutant emission, biodegradation, recycling property, energy type, efficiency ratio, energy utilization ratio, material utilization ratio, material recovery ratio, raw material type, user costs/production costs and environmental costs/ production costs. The Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) methodology and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) are employed to analyze and assess this model. The assessment model is applied to study the green degree of plant fiber and starch dishware. The result verifies the correctness of the model.
Keywords :
biodegradable materials; life cycle costing; packaging; remaining life assessment; statistical analysis; biodegradable packaging materials; biodegradation; efficiency ratio; energy properties; energy type; energy utilization ratio; environmental cost; environmental properties; fuzzy analytical hierarchy process methodology; green degree; life cycle assessment; material recovery ratio; material utilization ratio; plant fiber; pollutant emission; production cost; raw material type; recycling property; resource properties; starch dishware; user cost; Biodegradable materials; Biological materials; Building materials; Costs; Mechanical engineering; Packaging; Plastics; Pollution; Production; Raw materials; analytic hierarchy process; life cycle assessment; packaging materials;
Conference_Titel :
Measuring Technology and Mechatronics Automation (ICMTMA), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Changsha City
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5001-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5739-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICMTMA.2010.597
