Natural or artificial Christmas tree: a case study from Greece

The aim of the present paper is to study natural and artificial Christmas trees utilising the Life Cycle Assessment methodology. We considered a fir plantation in Taxiarchis, Chalkidiki as the place of production for the former and a factory in China for the latter. For both cases, the final location of use was considered to be Athens, Greece. The functional unit was defined as a tree of Colorado type 2 m in height. Data for the inventory phase were collected from personal communication with natural tree growers while data for the artificial tree were collected from technical equations and electronic sources. The assessment indicates that the natural tree is environmentally preferable than the artificial one.

1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Functional unit
2. NATURAL TREE
2.1 Cultivation
2.2 Wooden base
2.3 Transport
2.4 Disposal
3. ARTIFICIAL TREE
3.1 Artificial tree assembly
3.2 Transport
3.3 Disposal
4. RESULTS
5. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS



Copyright: © Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Quelle: 2nd International Conference 2009 (Juni 2009)
Seiten: 6
Preis: € 5,00
Autor: O. Theodoropoulou
F. Zachos
S. Douvalis
A. Kalogeropoulos
Dr. Konstadinos Abeliotis
 
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