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seaweed-bioplastic-lca

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

Structure of repository

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

  1. 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 ↩