A study on the environmental performance and economic value of recycled resources from spent fluorescent lights

Ahn, Joong Woo; Yang, Inmog; Rhee, Seung-Whee; Cho, Bong Gyoo; Cho, Youngju

doi:10.62765/kjlca.2016.17.1.15

Korean J Life Cycle Assess 2016; 17(1):15-23

pISSN: 1229-599X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62765/kjlca.2016.17.1.15

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폐 형광등으로부터 재생된 유가자원의 환경성과 및 경제적 가치에 대한 연구

안중우¹, 양인목¹, 이승희^*, 조봉규^**, 조영주^**

A study on the environmental performance and economic value of recycled resources from spent fluorescent lights

Joong Woo Ahn¹, Inmog Yang¹, Seung-Whee Rhee^*, Bong Gyoo Cho^**, Youngju Cho^**

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¹성신여자대학교

^*경기대학교

^**유용자원재활용기술개발사업단

¹Sungshin Women's University

^*Kyonggi University

^**R&D Center for Valuable Recycling

ⓒ Copyright 2016 The Korea Society for Life Cycle Assessment. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Aug 31, 2016

Abatract

This study was conducted to figure out environmental performance and the performance based economic value in order to confirm the value and necessity on the recycling technology of spent fluorescent lights. The comparison result of environmental impact of recycled six materials shows 1.33% of resource depletion, 3.23% of global warming, 1.70% of human toxicity, respectively. The assessment results of economic value of the environmental performance correspond to 266,000won/ton for six impact categories except toxicity. In addition, the environmental impact of recycling process can be improved by yield and energy efficiency increase.