Life cycle assessment of corrugated board packaging

Abstract

In this paper corrugated board packaging life cycle was evaluated with life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology. Two LCA methods were considered for the evaluation: CML 2001-Jan.2016 and ReCiPe 1.08, both included in GaBi software. Results showed that corrugated board packaging has negative impacts on the environment even if there were registered low values. Elimination methods like landfilling and incineration of corrugated board packaging waste are increasing the negative impacts on the environment, while recovery of packaging waste and their use in the corrugated board production leads to the reduction of these impactsand natural resources conservation.