Environmental Footprints of Recycled Products

Recycling is the need of the hour and it is an inevitable destination at the end of the life of any product. Today, recycling can happen at postindustrial and post-consumer states and the importance of recycled products in the market has gained significant importance. Recycled products dominate the array of sustainable products in today’s context. Even though there are commercial implications for recycling, one of the very important and obvious reasons to go for recycling and to have recycled products is to have the benefits on environmental sustainability. It is highly important to assess the environmental footprints of recycled products and further improve the environmental benefits of such recycled products. This book presents five interesting chapters pertaining to the environmental footprints of various recycled products. 

Ecological Footprint Assessment of Recycled Asphalt Pavement Construction.- Carbon Footprints Of Recycled Plastic Packaging And Household Food Consumption By Gender In Spain.- An Environmental Construction And Demolition Waste Management Model To Trigger Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery Towards A Circular Economy: The Mexican and Spanish Cases.- Ecological Footprint of Multi-Silicon Photovoltaic Module Recycling.- The Potential of Refuse Derived Fuel Production in Reducing the Environmental Footprint of the Cement Industry.

Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu currently works for SgT Group as Head of Sustainability, and is based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and over a decade's of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 100 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.