Looking beyond the banning of lightweight bags: analysing the role of plastic (and fuel) impacts in waste collection at a Portuguese city
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Title
Looking beyond the banning of lightweight bags: analysing the role of plastic (and fuel) impacts in waste collection at a Portuguese city
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Keywords
Municipal waste collection, Life cycle assessment, Environmental performance, Bioplastic, Polyhydroxyalkanoates, Thermoplastic starch, Recycled polyethylene, Fuel consumption
Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume -, Issue -, Pages -
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Online
2019-07-25
DOI
10.1007/s11356-019-05938-w
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