Life Cycle Assessment of Compostable Coffee Pods: A US University Based Case Study.

ABSTRACT: Single-serve machines have proven to be a rapid and convenient mechanism for preparing coffee for consumption. However, disposing the single-use coffee pods accompanying each use creates insurmountable waste in landfills. With the introduction of biobased products being certified as industrially compostable, there is scope for an effective waste stream for nearly all biobased products that avoids adding to landfills. The case presented in this paper demonstrates the success of composting compostable coffee pods within a local industrial-scale composting facility. Utilizing the existing local composting facility at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, a life cycle assessment was performed to calculate the overall embodied energy and related environmental impact(s) to determine the feasibi

SUBMITTER: Kooduvalli K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7280196 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature