TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Spierling, Sebastian
A1  - Venkatachalam, Venkateshwaran
A1  - Mudersbach, Marina
A1  - Becker, Nico
A1  - Herrmann, Christoph
A1  - Endres, Hans-Josef
T1  - End-of-Life Options for Bio-Based Plastics in a Circular Economy—Status Quo and Potential from a Life Cycle Assessment Perspective
JF  - Resources
N2  - The bio-based plastic market is forecast to grow in the next years. With a growing market share and product range, the implementation of circular thinking is becoming more and more important also for bio-based plastics to enable a sound circular economy for these group of plastics. Therefore, it is important to assess the environmental performance for different end-of-life options of bio-based plastics from an early stage on. This review presents a comprehensive overview on the current status quo of different end-of-life options for bio-based plastics from an environmental perspective. Based on the status quo and the corresponding impact assessment results, the global plastic demand as well as the technical substitution potential of bio-based plastics, the environmental saving potential in case of the different end-of-life options was calculated. The review shows that there is a focus on polylactic acid (PLA) regarding end-of-life assessment, with studies covering all end-of-life options. The focus of the impact assessment has been set on global warming potential (GWP). With respect to GWP, the analysis of a future global potential of PLA showed, for mechanical recycling, the highest saving potential with 94.1 Mio. t CO2-eq. per year in comparison to virgin material.
KW  - bio-based plastics
KW  - life cycle assessment
KW  - end-of-life options
KW  - circular economy
KW  - Biokunststoff
KW  - Lebensdauer
KW  - Umweltbilanz
KW  - Kreislaufwirtschaft
Y1  - 2020
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-17262
U6  - https://doi.org/10.25968/opus-1726
DO  - https://doi.org/10.25968/opus-1726
VL  - 9
IS  - 7
ER  -