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LCA of Digital Solutions for MunicipalServices: The Case of Three Waste Collection Services
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Built Environment, System Transition and Service Innovation.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2066-6371
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Materials and Production, Methodology, Textiles and Medical Technology.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0227-7313
2024 (English)In: MAKING LCA MEANINGFUL: GOOD DATA, BETTER MODELS, SUSTAINABLE DECISIONS / [ed] SETAC EUROPE and Swedish Life Cycle Centre, Gothenburg: SETAC EUROPE and Swedish Life Cycle Centre , 2024, Vol. 26, article id 4.04.P-Mo044Conference paper, Poster (with or without abstract) (Other academic)
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More and more digital solutions are implemented on a municipality level. The potential to reduce time and reduce climate impact seems to be at hand. However, are digital solutions able to reduce time and climate impacts in general? The aim of this study is assessing the carbon footprint of digital solutions in three waste collection systems: Waste collection in the city centre, Textile collection and Recycling stations. The functional unit is one year of waste collection service with digital solutions (IoT). The climate impacts are allocated to different actors in the waste collection chain. The reason for that is to elaborate on the service part and the consumption part of the service. Therefore, an actor based LCA method is used to discern the climate impacts from the digital service, the collection service, and the citizen. The results for all three types of waste collection system show that the carbon footprint of the digital solution is neglectable. On the other hand, from the operator´s feedback, the operation time is saved in waste collection service, that can be used for providing a better service, while the major climate reduction cannot be reached through using recycled material for the plastic bags for city waste collection, as well as more efficient transport. The results also show that in both the textile waste collection and the recycling stations services, the major climate impacts come from transport of the citizens to the collection system. Instead of reducing climate impacts, the digital solutions for municipal services lead to better service for the citizens.

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Gothenburg: SETAC EUROPE and Swedish Life Cycle Centre , 2024. Vol. 26, article id 4.04.P-Mo044
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SETAC EUROPE - LCA SYMPOSIUM
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Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering Computer and Information Sciences Other Natural Sciences Other Social Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-77484OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-77484DiVA, id: diva2:1935838
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SETAC EUROPE 26th LCA Symposium
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