Recycle or Reuse? A Life-Cycle-Assessment-based Model to Evaluate End-of-Life Decisions for Photovoltaic Panels

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaron Schünemann ◽  
Sebastian Finke ◽  
Semih Severengiz ◽  
Hayden Forrister
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
End Of Life Decisions ◽  
Photovoltaic Panels ◽  
Life Decisions

Integrating End-of-Life and Initial Profit Considerations in Product Life Cycle Design

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Zhao ◽  
Deborah Thurston
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Product Design ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
End Of Life Decisions ◽  
Early Design ◽  
Early Design Stage ◽  
Life Decisions

Growing concerns from customers and the government about product disposal highlight the necessity of improving product take-back systems to retain the embedded values in disposed products. Progress has been made towards minimizing the cost of the disassembly process. While some progress has been made in improving end-of-life (EOL) value through decision making in the early design stage, contradictive objectives make it difficult to simultaneously optimize initial sales profits and EOL value. In this paper, a mathematical model is developed to integrate end-of-life recovery value considerations with product design decisions. The improvement of component reuse value or recycling value is achieved by linking design decisions in the early design stage with end-of-life decisions in order to maximize total product value across the span of the life cycle. A matrix based representation that can group components into several end-of-life modules with similar end-of-life decisions is also presented. The results are discussed to compare different design alternatives to understand their influence on product lifecycle value. The proposed method is illustrated through an example involving cell phone product design decisions and end-of-life strategies.

A Life Cycle Assessment of a recovery process from End-of-Life Photovoltaic Panels

2021 ◽  
Vol 290 ◽  
pp. 116727
Author(s):  
G. Ansanelli ◽  
G. Fiorentino ◽  
M. Tammaro ◽  
A. Zucaro
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Photovoltaic Panels

Life Cycle Assessment of Two Alternative End-of-life Scenarios for Leather Safety Shoes

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra LUCA ◽  
David SANCHEZ DOMENE ◽  
Francisca ARAN AIS
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
End Of Life

Life cycle assessment of plastic waste end-of-life for India and Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 174 ◽  
pp. 105774
Author(s):  
Edward Ren Kai Neo ◽  
Gibson Chin Yuan Soo ◽  
Daren Zong Loong Tan ◽  
Karina Cady ◽  
Kai Ting Tong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Plastic Waste

scholarly journals Attitudes of the Equestrian Public towards Equine End-of-Life Decisions

Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1776
Author(s):  
Catherine Bell ◽  
Suzanne Rogers
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Affective State ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Peer Pressure ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
End Of Life Decisions ◽  
Life Decisions ◽  
End Of Life Decision ◽  
Physical Reasons ◽  
Horse Owners

A key welfare concern for the equine population in the U.K. has been identified as delayed death, leading to prolonged suffering of horses. Reasons why some horse owners fail to have their horses euthanised include financial cost, emotional attachment, peer pressure, negative attitudes towards killing and poor recognition of behavioural indicators of equine pain and stress. The Five Freedoms framework of welfare was used to build a Likert-style survey to investigate the factors underlying attitudes of horse owners towards welfare measures in an end-of-life decision. Participants were asked to respond to hypothetical welfare scenarios and to give details of any horses they had had euthanised. The survey was conducted predominantly via equestrian Facebook groups and obtained 160 participant responses. Reliability of the scale was acceptable, with Cronbach’s α=0.89. Principal Component Analysis was used to load the hypothetical scenarios onto seven factors containing 62.2% of the variance. The first four factors could be categorized according to “Ethology-informed Management”, “Traditional Horse Management”, “Emotional Issues” and “Physical Issues”. Participants were more likely to consider euthanasia for physical issues, compared with issues relating to affective state and/or ethology, although it was not clear whether this was due to disregard for welfare issues relating to mental health or failure to recognise them as such. A large number of responses stated that the scenario had no bearing on whether a horse should be euthanised, again suggesting a lack of recognition of welfare issues and their implications. When asked to state their reasons for euthanising their horses, participants cited almost exclusively physical reasons, with the exception of those citing dangerous behaviour. Only a small number of responses also included consideration of affective and/or ethological factors, suggesting that welfare issues concerning affective state and/or behaviour are at risk of omission from end-of-life decisions.

Moral distress in end-of-life decisions: A qualitative study of intensive care physicians

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 185-189
Author(s):  
Una St Ledger ◽  
Joanne Reid ◽  
Ann Begley ◽  
Peter Dodek ◽  
Daniel F. McAuley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Moral Distress ◽  
End Of Life Decisions ◽  
Life Decisions

scholarly journals European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Ethics of resuscitation and end of life decisions

Resuscitation ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spyros D. Mentzelopoulos ◽  
Keith Couper ◽  
Patrick Van de Voorde ◽  
Patrick Druwé ◽  
Marieke Blom ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
European Resuscitation Council ◽  
End Of Life Decisions ◽  
Life Decisions
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