Incorporating lean thinking and life cycle assessment to reduce environmental impacts of plastic injection moulded products
- Submitting institution
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University of Northumbria at Newcastle
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 14560853
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.08.208
- Title of journal
- Journal of Cleaner Production
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- First page
- 759
- Volume
- 167
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 0959-6526
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This research linking Life Cycle Assessment and Lean Manufacturing for redesigning plastic products contributed a blueprint for making plastic products more environmentally friendly. It led to a research award by Glasgow City Council (£7k) to support evaluation of environmental impacts of remanufactured aluminium alloy street light housing. The corresponding author was invited to Chair a session in Challenges and Opportunities of Clean Technology in Production Engineering at the International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (SDM-17, Bologna, Italy, 2017). The work was developed in collaboration with an industrial partner Paramit (Malaysia) Sdn, Bhd (Mr Lim: limck7356@gmail.com).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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