Industrial Ecology

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LCA Project Topic Ideas:

Previous years' project titles and authors can be found here.  Full reports are available in Professor Keoleian's office.
 

Data Sources:

APME:
    APME Home page
    You can access LCA data sets here once you have registered with APME. Make sure you register as a student.
   Once on the APME site, click on the "Products & Topics" section to get to the plastic life cycle data.
   

Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES):
    BEES Home page
    BEES products

Life Cycle Analysis - Cost Data
    Plastics
    Municipal Solid Waste (electronic journal article: follow this link, scroll down to BioScience, then select the April 2001 issue.  There is an article in it on MSW.)

Life Cycle Inventories for Packaging - On Reserve in Shapiro Science Library

Good data is available on:

Old Course Project Presentations:
(download in powerpoint)

Comparing Food Wraps

Glass vs Polycarbonate Auto windows

Last Updated: January 7, 2004