Beverly Sauer's scientific contributions

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Publications (4)

Table 1 Descriptions of FMDSs 
Figure 2 Relative impacts of (a) in-home chilled and (b) ambient...
Figure 3 (a) Monolayer HDPE chilled 1-gallon and (b) aseptic brick...
Figure 4 Normalization cradle-to-grave results for (a) the U.S. region...
Figure 6 Summary of pairwise uncertainty comparisons of fluid milk...
Environmental Sustainability of Fluid Milk Delivery Systems in the United States: Sustainability of Milk Delivery Systems in the U.S.
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  • Jan 2017
Beverage producers in the United States choose packaging based on cost and consumer preference. Monolayer high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and gable-top carton containers have long dominated the U.S. fluid milk market, but pressure for more sustainable packaging is increasing. We present a broad discussion on environmental sustainability of 18 flui...
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Impacts of Plastics Packaging on Life Cycle Energy Consumption & Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States and Canada: Substitution Analysis
Technical Report
  • Jan 2014
Commissioned by The American Chemistry Council (ACC) and the Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA), Franklin Associates, A Division of ERG conducted this study of plastic packaging substitution for predominant packaging resins. The impacts of the current amounts of plastic packaging products were compared to a scenario in which plastic pack...
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Life Cycle Inventory of Plastic Fabrication Processes: Injection Molding and Thermoforming
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  • Sep 2011
This gate-to-gate LCI study of plastic fabrication methods was conducted for the Rigid Plastic Packaging Group (RPPG) of the Plastics Division of the American Chemistry Council (ACC). Ashley Carlson, Director of Packaging was the project coordinator for the Plastics Division of the ACC. The report was made possible through the cooperation of RPPG/A...
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Figure 1-2. "Black box" concept for developing LCI data. 
Figure 1-3. Illustration of the Energy of Material Resource Concept. 
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Cradle-to-Gate Life Cycle Inventory of Nine Plastic Resins and Four Polyurethane Precursors
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  • Aug 2011
This cradle-to-resin LCI study was conducted for the Plastics Division of the American Chemistry Council (ACC). Mike Levy was the project coordinator for the Plastics Division of the ACC. The report was made possible through the cooperation of ACC member companies and non-member companies who provided data on the production of nine plastic resins,...
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... 100% recycling vs 100% incineration, such as in Wikstrom et al. (2014)), but only three of them linked these scenarios with real or specific consumer practices. In particular, one study looked at different disposal scenarios if the packaging was designed for at-home or on-the-go consumption (Burek et al. 2018), and two studies modelled three disposal patterns (no separation for recycling, occasional and regular separation) for food packaging (Yokokawa et al. 2019(Yokokawa et al. , 2018. Some authors recognise a lack of behavioural data, which leads to general, sometimes unrealistic, assumptions regarding the disposal, e.g. ...
Reference: Integrating consumer behaviour into the environmental assessment of circular packaging: a scoping review
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... The process boundary for the glycerol production is from cradle to gate. The main data sources are the USLCI database and the literature (Feraldi et al., 2011;Yang & Rosentrater, 2021). The data represent industry average data. ...
Reference: Formulation improvement of a concentrated enzyme detergent for high-speed rail trains through life cycle assessment methodology
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... In fact, production of non-reinforced PA6 monomer accounts for 90% of the entire energy consumption. It should be noted that most of the energy required for IM manufacturing is used to obtain the raw material and manufacture the product, with the former consuming three times more energy than the latter [64]. In our case, producing non-reinforced PA6 would have required almost 10 times more energy than manufacturing the pedal, which indicates the strong influence of the particular polyamide on the energy consumption estimates. ...
Reference: Technical and Environmental Viability of a Road Bicycle Pedal Part Made of a Fully Bio-Based Composite Material
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