A Waste Recycling Method Based on the Life Cycle Analysis of Products

Abstract

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a method for quantifying the effects of different actions to make evaluations and decisions easier. There are various product waste management solutions, but determining which one is best in terms of environmental effects can be difficult. In this regard, recycling is frequently regarded as environmentally beneficial, as it involves the gathering and processing of waste into new products. Inspired by the necessity of recycling, this study proposes a waste recycling system based on product life cycle evaluation to increase the use rate of waste products. The suggested system built the product life cycle workflow using Electronic Product Cycle (EPC) to make the product’s complete life cycle scalable and unified. In addition, the proposed system uses a big data normalization approach to preprocess product life cycle data and extract the total weight of product life cycle assessment indicators. Furthermore, the suggested method seeks to demonstrate the usefulness of LCA as a waste recycling tool during the construction of a waste management framework and to identify a gap in research by designing a better framework. The simulation results show that compared with the designed PLA-based waste recycling system, the system has higher reliability, lower LCA complexity, less impact on throughput, and lower cost, meeting the economics of waste disposal requirements.