Research Article
Life-Cycle Assessment of Recycling Postconsumer High-Density Polyethylene and Polyethylene Terephthalate
Table 5
Energy requirement for 1 ton of the postconsumer material at the material recovery facility (MRF).
| | Incoming material transportation | Energy (Btu) |
| | Large truck | 84,000 | | Single unit truck | 230,000 | | Total transportation | 22,000 |
| | Process energy | | | Electricity (grid) | 30,000 | | Diesel | 26,000 | | Total process | 308,000 |
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