This repository contains code and data to reproduce the results in the article:
Life Cycle Assessment of pilot scale production of seaweed-based plastic
by Maddalen Ayala^1, Marianne Thomsen^2, Massimo Pizzol^1*
Published in: Algal Research, Volume 71, April 2023, 103036 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.algal.2023.103036
^1 Danish Center for Environmental Assessment, Department of Planning, Aalborg University, Rendsburggade 14, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark
^2 Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 26, 1958 Frederiksberg, Denmark
*Corresponding author e-mail: massimo@plan.aau.dk
Code
lci_to_bw2.py an importer for lci data in .csv into open source brightway2 LCA software
Seaweed-Bioplastic-LCA.ipynb Notebook with the code for the simulation
Data
PS pilot (base).csv ; PS pilot (cellulose).csv ; PS pilot (mannitol).csv ; PS pilot (PLA5).csv ; PS pilot (PLA30).csv ; PS pilot.csv Several .csv files as inventory
Seaweed-plastic-inventory.xlsx The inventory in Excel
Seaweed-plastic-inventory-corrected.xlsx The inventory in Excel, corrected in 2023 1.
Figures
Seaweed-plastic-plots.R R script to recreate the stochastic simulation figure
Results
static_results.csv Results of the static LCA
mc_CC_biogenic.csv ; mc_CC_fossil.csv ; mc_CC_total_summary_stats.csv ; mc_CC_total.csv Results of the stochastic LCA
Differences.csv Pairwise differences across alternatives
Footnotes
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The inventory in Excel after correction, see article Corrigendum to “Life Cycle Assessment of pilot scale production of seaweed-based bioplastic” [Algal Res. 71 (2023) 103036] available here : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.algal.2023.103313 ↩