Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
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Notes
1
Susan Freinkel, the author of a very readable and interesting volume,
Plastic: A Toxic Love Story
, counted the number of plastic items she
cameintocontactinaday(Frienkel, 2011). Thetotalwas196itemsaday,
twice that of nonplastic items!
2
The statistics are from Wards Auto, the information center for the global
auto industry in a 2010 report.
www.wardsauto.com
.
3
Information downloaded from Report by Markets and Markets Inc.
4
The UPS Company tested its CV-23 prototype vehicles. The data is from
UPS Composite Car Fact Sheet.
5
Specialized packaging is used for instance in military rations packaging
where additional functionality such as printed electronic circuitry,
tamper-evident markers, or heating/cooling technologies might be
integrated into the package.
6
DatafromtheImpEEprogram,UniversityofCambridge,UK(Jacksonand
Bertényi, 2005).
7
With Meals Ready toEat (MRE), themultilayer packaging used in military
field rations, the packaged food is edible after 3 years of storage at 80°F
(27°C).
8
PAR is the light in the wavelength range of 400-700 nm.
9
Data is from CertainTeed Siding Products LCA Study (CertainTeed, Valley
Forge, PA). Downloaded from
http://www.certainteed.com/resources/
