Waste management decisions affect more than the materials sent for treatment. Collection and processing require energy and infrastructure, while recovered materials and energy can replace production elsewhere. Understanding these effects helps you identify where changes can reduce environmental impacts.
At 2-0 LCA, we help municipalities, waste operators, technology providers and companies assess their waste management options. Our work covers municipal, industrial and organic waste, including solid waste and wastewater.
We use life cycle assessment to compare alternatives and support decisions about waste prevention, reuse, recycling, treatment and disposal.
Should an organic waste stream go to composting or anaerobic digestion? Would additional sorting improve the environmental performance of a recycling system? What would change if you introduced a new treatment technology?
We assess these questions by comparing your current system with proposed alternatives. The assessment considers the waste being treated, the processes involved and the effects of recovering materials or energy.
Transport distances, treatment performance and the production displaced by recovered outputs can influence the results. We examine these assumptions so you can understand what drives the comparison and where uncertainty matters.
A reduction in greenhouse gas emissions can come with changes in other environmental impacts. Depending on the purpose of your study, an assessment can also consider issues such as nutrient emissions, resource use and toxicity.
This helps you identify trade-offs between treatment options and avoid overlooking impacts outside the immediate waste management process.
Assess the environmental impacts of water supply, wastewater treatment and discharge. We help you compare treatment options and understand how energy use, emissions and resource recovery affect their performance.
