Sustainability Performance Evaluation
for Selecting the Best Recycling Pathway
During Its Design Phase
Guilhem Grimaud, Nicolas Perry and Bertrand Laratte
Abstract As the end of life products are becoming more and more complex, the
recycling systems encountered many difficulties in valuing all the materials contained in each product. This involves not only recovering a large number of
materials but also doing so with the minimal environmental impact. Although the
benefits of recycling are well established, the industrial processes need to be
designed in regard with their environmental impacts. Therefore recyclers need
robust assessment tools to make the right choices during the design of recycling
processes. This approach should enable them to choose the right recycling solutions
for a wide range of end of life products. In this article, we present a methodology
developped for evaluating the performance of recycling processes during their
design phase. This methodology is our answer to help the optimisation of the
recycling of multi materials products based on the evaluation of the sustainability
performance of the processes chosen.
1 Introduction
The growth of world’s population and its life conditions go hand in hand with the
growth of energy and raw material consumption as well as the steady growth of
CO 2 concentration in the atmosphere [1, 2]. As the economy is mostly linear, the
growth of consumption comes with an increase in the amount of waste produced
annually [3]. In this context, the demand for primary resources is not tenable in a
long-term [4, 5]. It is therefore required to find industrial solutions to maintain or
improve standards of living while also decoupling resource use and demand [6].
G. Grimaud (&)
MTB Recycling, Trept, France
e-mail: guilhem.grimaud@ensam.eu
G. Grimaud Á N. Perry Á B. Laratte
Arts et Métiers ParisTech, CNRS, I2M Bordeaux, F-33400 Talence, France
B. Laratte
APESA-Innovation, Talence, France
© The Author(s) 2018
E. Benetto et al. (eds.), Designing Sustainable Technologies,
Products and Policies, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66981-6_2
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for Selecting the Best Recycling Pathway
During Its Design Phase
Guilhem Grimaud, Nicolas Perry and Bertrand Laratte
Abstract As the end of life products are becoming more and more complex, the
recycling systems encountered many difficulties in valuing all the materials contained in each product. This involves not only recovering a large number of
materials but also doing so with the minimal environmental impact. Although the
benefits of recycling are well established, the industrial processes need to be
designed in regard with their environmental impacts. Therefore recyclers need
robust assessment tools to make the right choices during the design of recycling
processes. This approach should enable them to choose the right recycling solutions
for a wide range of end of life products. In this article, we present a methodology
developped for evaluating the performance of recycling processes during their
design phase. This methodology is our answer to help the optimisation of the
recycling of multi materials products based on the evaluation of the sustainability
performance of the processes chosen.
1 Introduction
The growth of world’s population and its life conditions go hand in hand with the
growth of energy and raw material consumption as well as the steady growth of
CO 2 concentration in the atmosphere [1, 2]. As the economy is mostly linear, the
growth of consumption comes with an increase in the amount of waste produced
annually [3]. In this context, the demand for primary resources is not tenable in a
long-term [4, 5]. It is therefore required to find industrial solutions to maintain or
improve standards of living while also decoupling resource use and demand [6].
G. Grimaud (&)
MTB Recycling, Trept, France
e-mail: guilhem.grimaud@ensam.eu
G. Grimaud Á N. Perry Á B. Laratte
Arts et Métiers ParisTech, CNRS, I2M Bordeaux, F-33400 Talence, France
B. Laratte
APESA-Innovation, Talence, France
© The Author(s) 2018
E. Benetto et al. (eds.), Designing Sustainable Technologies,
Products and Policies, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66981-6_2
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