@inproceedings{VenkatachalamSpierlingHornetal.2018,
  author    = {Venkateshwaran Venkatachalam and Sebastian Spierling and Rafael Horn and Hans-Josef Endres},
  title     = {LCA and Eco-Design : Consequential and Attributional Approaches for Biobased Plastics},
  series = {Procedia CIRP},
  volume    = {69},
  issn      = {2212-8271},
  doi       = {10.25968/opus-1259},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-12592},
  pages     = {579 -- 584},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Against the background of climate change and finite fossil resources, bio-based plastics have been in the focus of research for the last decade and were identified as a promising alternative to fossil-based plastics. Now, with an evolving bio-based plastic market and application range, the environmental advantages of bio-based plastic have come to the fore and identified as crucial by different stakeholders. While the majority of assessments for bio-based plastics are carried out based on attributional life cycle assessment, there have been only few consequential studies done in this area. Also, the application of eco-design strategies has not been in the focus for the bio-based products due to the prevailing misconceptions of renewable materials (as feedstock for bio-based plastics) considered in itself as an ‘eco-design strategy’. In this paper, we discuss the life cycle assessment as well as eco-design strategies of a bio-based product taking attributional as well as consequential approaches into account.},
  language  = {en}
}