Verification of Academic Experience by UCD's student desk
Tuesday 16 February 2016
Verification of Academic Experience by UCD's student desk
Verification of Academic Experience by UCD's student desk
Thursday 11 February 2016
Waste Policy Assignment-LCA summary report
Basketball
Shoes Life-Cycle Assessment
Summary
Report
1. The Life Cycle of Basketball shoes
1.1 Resource
The basic resources from nature to support producing a pair
of basketball shoe can be categorized into 5 headings, including the cattle
farming, cotton planting, virgin rubber collection, mine and petroleum
exploitation. The operations of the entire resources gathering procedure will
require the storage to secure the resource state in the first place.
Transportation will be needed to move the resource from the field to the
factories. Power consumption is during the entire the resource gathering stage.
1.2 Material
As the original resources are delivered to the processing
factories, they will be produced into elementary materials. These materials
include leather, Nylon, EVA and adhesives. The virgin rubber will be made into
the sole shape. Cotton will become cloth in the spinning mill.
‘Life
Cycle Assessment of Footwear for Simple Shoes’, Miller. J and Albers. K, 2009
1.3 Manufacture
In the design phase, stylist sometimes may develop new
technology and appearance for the basketball shoes. This may require new
materials associated with new resources. In shoe manufacturing procedure,
leather and cloth cutting into particular shapes is the first step. Then the
leather and cloth will be stitched. The gluing of the sole and upper comes
next. Packaging comes at the last moment.
1.4 Use
In the phase, the delivery is the most important part.
Transportation requires extra energy consumption different from the producing
phases.
1.5 End-of-Life
In this phase, it includes the management to handle the
basketball shoes which are out of their function. The main disposal to treat
the waste are the recycling, landfilling and burning. The rubber can be
recycled to produce new rubber. Most of the leather and cotton cloth can be
managed by natural degradation in the landfill. But most of the petroleum
production can only be burned.
2. Impact Assessment Results
The study of a pair of basketball shoes life-cycle effects
can be identified with 4 indicators with a simple judgment.
2.1 CO2 emission
This kind of impact is usually caused by the fossil production
burning.
2.2 Fossil fuel depletion
The petroleum exploitation and the use of petroleum
production will cause the depletion.
2.3 Land use
The factories and landfills are the significant land users.
Each of them may cause impacts to the landscape and its quality.
2.4 Water
A significant view of the potential eutrophication can be
observed at the tannery in the material phase. (Milà. L, 1998)
3.Conclusion
By seeing the entire procedure of shoes producing, the
materials can be alternative. The renewable and recycled materials can be used
to reduce the negative environmental impacts. The reuse of car tires can be
alternative for the sole materials. This may reduce the fossil consumption and
the CO2 and SO2 emissions.
Reference
Miller. J
and Albers. K, 2009, ‘Life Cycle Assessment of Footwear for Simple Shoes’, Donald
Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. Available at: http://www.slideshare.net/boboskips/Copy-of-SimpleFinal-Presentation
[Accessed 11 February, 2016 ]
Milà. L, Domènech. X, Rieradevall. J, Fullana. P, and
Puig. R. (1998) ‘Application of Life Cycle Assessment to Footwear’, The
International Journal Of Life Cycle Assessment. pp203-208. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225840953
[Accessed 10 February, 2016 ]
Friday 5 February 2016
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