Inteligent Techniques for Controling Municipal Solid Wastes

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**Chapter 6**

**Abstract**

management, landfill

presented. Among them are:

**1. Introduction**

Life Cycle Inventory (LCI)

Modeling of Municipal Solid

Waste (MSW) Management

not carried out. The LCI model can be used in full LCA study.

port societies to become more sustainable [1].

*Dariusz Sala and Bogusław Bieda*

Systems in Kosodrza, Community

The purpose of this study is to perform the life cycle assessment (LCA) limited to life cycle inventory (LCI) related to municipal solid waste operating in Kosodrza, community of Ostrów, in Poland. The current LCI is a representative for year 2015 by application of PN-EN ISO 14040. The system boundary was labeled as gate-togate. The data used in this study, involving consumption of energy and fuels, water, materials, and waste, is obtained from (i) site-specific measured or calculated data and (ii) secondary data taken from integrated permit issued by Marshal of the Podkarpackie region in Rzeszów for the establishment of municipal services in Ostrów by entering the records concerning the waste landfill in Kosodrza. This study is based on the deterministic approach to LCI. Hence, uncertainty analysis is

**Keywords:** Poland, life cycle inventory, life cycle assessment, municipal solid waste

The traditional consideration of waste as a pollution has progressively shifted toward a new perspective, in which waste is regarded as a resource that could sup-

LCA as a tool to analyze waste management systems appeared in the early 1990s. A number of models for LCA of waste management have been developed, and some of these models are commercially available, while others are affordable only to researchers [2]. All models are developed within the framework of LCA of waste management, and most models also include some kind of economic accounting [2]. Moreover, in [2], a summary of key features of waste management LCA models is

• *Integrated waste management-2 (IWM-2)*, updated version of the IWM-1, released by Procter and Gamble in 1995. The IWM-2 and IWM-1 have been used in many case studies in Europe, North and South America and Australia.

of Ostrów, Poland: A Case Study
