Environment and Occupational Safety Engineering
Vol. 34 No. 05 (2019): Proceedings of the Faculty of Technical Sciences
COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PLASTICS UTILIZATION
- Jovan Lučić
- Nemanja Stanisavljević
Abstract
The main purpose of the master's work is to show how does plastic pollute the ecosystem, and, based on the MFA analysis and the available GaBi databases, shows which types of plastics have the greatest impact on the environment, in production phase, incineration phase and recycling, and after that present possible scenarios for solving the problems of PET packaging in Serbia.
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