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{"title":"Evaluating the environmental impacts of self-sustaining batteries for electric vehicles: Influence of user charging behaviour","authors":"Lea D'amore ,&nbsp;Maeva Lavigne Philippot ,&nbsp;Maarten Messagie","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.08.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.08.013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Optimizing charging time has become essential with the increasing electrification of the vehicle fleet. However, fast charging can accelerate battery degradation, reducing the battery's lifespan. To address this challenge, batteries and cooling systems are being developed with enhanced capacities to support fast charging. This paper evaluates the environmental impacts of such improved systems using a comparative cradle-to-grave life cycle assessment. The performance of the enhanced system is compared to that of a reference system currently available on the market, under two scenarios: an overnight charging scenario and a fast-charging scenario. An additional scenario is modeled to reflect a limit on the number of fast charges per month to avoid battery replacement. While most existing studies that include battery degradation look at fast-charging effects, they often do not define scenarios based on individual user charging choices and therefore, potential switch between fast and slow charging. In this study, the functional unit is 1 km driven, and the need for battery replacement is calculated using results from ageing tests at the cell level. A sensitivity analysis is also conducted to evaluate the influence of a more decarbonized electricity mix. In the overnight charging scenario, for Ecotoxicity Freshwater, the reference system performs better. Under fast-charging scenario, the improved system outperforms the other across all impact categories. With a decarbonized electricity mix, the reference system performs better across more categories in the overnight charging scenario. Overall, the study demonstrates that the comparative environmental results of the two systems depend strongly on the charging scenario.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"59 ","pages":"Pages 274-287"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144932823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Circular economy models of sugarcane biorefinery towards carbon neutrality and environmental sustainability","authors":"Shwe Yie Lin ,&nbsp;Nicholas M. Holden ,&nbsp;Romanee Thongdara ,&nbsp;Thapat Silalertruksa ,&nbsp;Shabbir H. Gheewala ,&nbsp;Trakarn Prapaspongsa","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.07.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.07.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sugarcane biorefineries convert sugarcane waste into bioproducts, requiring assessment for environmentally viable processing. This study compared the life cycle environmental impacts, environmental damage costs, and circularity of sugarcane biorefinery scenarios: a base case with pre-harvest cane trash burning and sugar and ethanol production; a modified one with improved energy efficiency; and three bioproduct scenarios producing bagasse-based biobutanol or biochar for bioenergy scenario, lactic or acetic acid for biochemicals, and cane trash-derived cellulose nanofibers or soil conditioner for biomaterials. Bioproduct scenarios assumed green cane harvesting. Life cycle assessment followed a cradle-to-gate scope, with a functional unit of 1 tonne of cane processed (t_c). Damage to human health ranged from 7.72 × 10⁻⁴ to 2.85 × 10⁻³ disability-adjusted life years/t_c; ecosystem from 4.85 × 10⁻⁶ to 9.15 × 10⁻⁶ species.year/t_c; resource scarcity from 10 to 60 United States dollar 2013/t_c; total damage costs from 2,100 to 5,410 Thai Baht/t_c, and circularity from 0.44 to 0.52. Bioproduct scenarios, except cellulose nanofibers, had lower environmental damage costs than the base case. Biorefinery circularity aligned closely with the highest-value product in each scenario. Biochemical (Lactic acid) was the best overall, with the lowest environmental damage cost and resource scarcity damage, relatively low human health and ecosystem damage, and a high circularity score of 0.5. Biomaterial (Cellulose nanofibers) was the worst due to its highest damage cost from the highest fossil resource scarcity, accounting for over 95 % of resources scarcity damage in all scenarios, and high-water consumption, despite minimum human health damage from the lowest fine particulate matter formation, leading contributor to human health damage mainly from cane burning and biomass electricity, and a high circularity of 0.52. The modified base case was slightly better than the base case across all metrics. Bioproduct scenarios increased circularity; however, higher circularity did not always correlate better environmental performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"59 ","pages":"Pages 305-324"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145004291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Potential for biogenic carbon storage towards a net-zero built environment in Switzerland","authors":"Yasmine Dominique Priore ,&nbsp;Lucile Schulthess ,&nbsp;Sarah Delmenico ,&nbsp;Lionel Rinquet ,&nbsp;Guillaume Habert ,&nbsp;Thomas Jusselme","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.08.019","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.08.019","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The built environment is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, posing challenges for achieving net-zero targets by 2050. This study examines the potential of an increased use of biobased materials in the Swiss residential building stock to mitigate emissions while increasing biogenic carbon storage. Using a Python-based building stock model, the study evaluates the effectiveness of increasing the share of biobased materials in both renovations and new constructions under different scenarios compared to climate goals. Results indicate that renovations will become the dominant driver of building stock emissions and biogenic carbon storage potential by 2050. While new construction activities will decline due to demographic trends, renovations will contribute nearly four times more to GHG emissions than new buildings. Nevertheless, new constructions are more effective at storing biogenic carbon, achieving a biogenic-to-emissions ratio of 300 % by 2050, compared to 176 % for renovations. By mid-century, the yearly biogenic carbon storage in buildings could reach 2.5 Mt. CO₂, approaching a balance with yearly GHG embodied emissions. However, even in the most optimistic scenario, increasing biobased material use alone reduces cumulative emissions by only 5–8 % compared to business as usual, underscoring the need for additional emission reduction strategies, including decarbonizing material production and reducing construction activities. The long-term analysis reveals that biogenic carbon storage potential is constrained by demolition rates (assuming full re-emission at the end of life), with a higher demolition rate accelerating carbon turnover and limiting storage capacity. A cumulative maximum biogenic carbon stock of 300–400 Mt. CO₂ is projected in the long-term, surpassing Switzerland's expected cumulative net emissions removals by 2050 by 6 times. This study highlights the built environment's potential as a long-term carbon reservoir and emphasizes the necessity of targeted renovation strategies, regulatory policies, and material production improvements to achieve climate goals effectively.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"59 ","pages":"Pages 229-240"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144906926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding the effects of mining and processing parameters on Life Cycle Assessment of Greenbushes Spodumene production","authors":"Shayan Khakmardan ,&nbsp;Robert H. Crawford ,&nbsp;Damien Giurco ,&nbsp;Wen Li","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.08.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.08.014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The rapid transition to clean energy has intensified demand for lithium, a critical element for battery production, yet lithium extraction imposes substantial environmental burdens. While the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) provides a snapshot of environmental impacts, it does not account for dynamic changes in mining and processing operations, such as declining ore grade. This study conducts comprehensive LCAs of Spodumene ore and concentrate production from 2009 to 2023 at the Greenbushes project, empirically analysing how variable parameters influence environmental impacts. Regression analysis identifies the waste-to-ore ratio as the most significant factor affecting most of the mining-related impacts, while ore grade and yield play a dominant role in processing operations for most of the impact categories. Consequently, the global warming potential of producing Spodumene concentrate increased by almost 42.7 % between 2011 and 2023. Moreover, electricity and grinding media consistently contributed the most to the carbon footprint throughout the study period, though their combined share declined from 81.1 % to 57.1 %, whereas diesel consumption rose from 3 % to nearly 20.1 %, mainly due to site expansion.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"59 ","pages":"Pages 241-254"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144913722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Peaking in pieces? Decoding the carbon peak dynamics of Chinese cities","authors":"He Huang ,&nbsp;Jinlei Ma ,&nbsp;Hongyu Liu ,&nbsp;Jingke Hong","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.09.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.09.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding the diverse carbon peaking pathways of different cities are critically important for achieving China's dual carbon goals. To address data limitations, this study introduces a novel Data Alignment Technique to compile the most comprehensive historical carbon emission dataset of 329 Chinese cities from 1992 to 2023. The dynamics of carbon peak—including trajectories, timelines, and driving factors are systematically analysed by integrating machine learning techniques and econometrics models. The findings include: (1) The carbon peaking process at the city level in China was fragmented and asynchronous, as evidenced by the distribution of 213 Non-Peak Cities (64.74 %), 84 Pre-Peak Cities (25.53 %), and 32 Post-Peak Cities (9.73 %). (2) Peak Cities have formed nine distinct carbon peak clusters across the country, primarily driven by the spillover effects of technological innovation and regulatory policies. (3) Emissions in Peak Cities were reduced in stages: first, by energy structure optimization (1995–1999), thereafter, by technological innovation (2005–2019), and recently, by policy regulation and industrial restructuring (2020−2022). (4) The marginal effects of green technology, policy regulation and industrial structure adjustment on carbon exhibited the greatest variability among Non-Peak Cities, with only half of them achieving emission reduction benefits from these measures. These findings underscore the urgent need for coordinated, yet differentiated, climate efforts, particularly to facilitate technological diffusion and enhance policy synergy within the city agglomerations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"59 ","pages":"Pages 359-374"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145019261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing the circularity potential of textile flows for future markets in Denmark: A study of textile anatomy","authors":"Heather Margaret Logan ,&nbsp;Valentina Rossi ,&nbsp;Kamilla Kastrup Hansen ,&nbsp;Maggie Ziggie Søndergaard ,&nbsp;Anders Damgaard","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.08.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.08.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>There is an urgent need to reduce the production and consumption of garments to curb the environmental emissions from the waste generated after their lifecycles. Nonetheless, even if drastic steps are taken today to reduce the production of textiles, the textiles already in circulation eventually need to be disposed of or recycled. To capture these garments and increase the quantity of textile available for recycling, the European Union (EU) has mandated the separate collection of the textile fraction across member states from 2025. However, collecting textiles for recycling does not guarantee that the collected textiles are recyclable. This study explores the recyclability of textiles by analysing the anatomy of textiles (linings, disruptors, adornments, and fibre blends) in Denmark and applies these findings to forecast the material available to different recycling routes in 2025. This study finds that in Denmark, after initial collection and sorting, textile complexity will likely result in the incineration of 36 % of textiles sent to recycling streams, 53 % will require disruptor removal, and 11 % will be available to different recycling routes. When the recycling capacity for high-quality recycling is considered, only a minor part (&lt;2 %) of textiles in the Danish market can result in high-quality fibre-to-fibre recycling. These results emphasize the importance of considering textile anatomy both when designing textiles and determining recycling pathways. Moreover, our findings underscore that the Circular Economy (CE) transition cannot rely on recycling alone; instead, it must invest in avoidance and reuse approaches in addition to improved sorting and pretreatment facilities within Europe to best utilize the textiles currently in circulation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"59 ","pages":"Pages 127-142"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144865175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Is that the way the cookie crumbles? Variation in household food waste by socio-demographics and food management behaviours","authors":"Gülbanu Kaptan ,&nbsp;Tom Quested ,&nbsp;Chuyao Kuang ,&nbsp;Marcel Torode","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.08.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.08.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Households produce more food waste than the rest of the supply chain combined in most countries. Identifying which households contribute most to food waste is important for designing and implementing effective interventions to reduce food waste. However, previous findings on the impact of socio-demographic characteristics and food management behaviours on household food waste are inconsistent and often rely on <em>self-reported</em> food waste data. In this study, we examined the association of socio-demographics and food management behaviours with directly measured food waste in 1783 UK households using waste compositional analysis. Our findings indicate that household size, age, and education significantly influence food waste levels, with individuals holding a university degree wasting less food, contrary to previous studies that analysed self-reported food waste levels. Additionally, the behaviours of purchasing the right amount of food, reusing leftovers, and defrosting items from the freezer are found to mediate the relationship between age and food waste. While purchasing the right amount of food and reusing leftovers are associated with lower food waste, households better at defrosting tend to waste more food, an intriguing and previously unreported finding. Our results suggest that future behavioural interventions should focus on these significant socio-demographic factors and food management behaviours to reduce household food waste.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"59 ","pages":"Pages 39-48"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144829883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Environmental trade-offs of EV battery end-of-life options in Thailand: A life cycle assessment with sensitivity to electricity mix and battery degradation","authors":"Sakraan Sitcharangsie ,&nbsp;Suwit Paengkanya ,&nbsp;Seksan Papong","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.08.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.08.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As electric vehicle (EV) adoption accelerates, understanding the environmental impacts of EV batteries—particularly at their end-of-life (EOL)—is essential. This study presents a comprehensive life cycle assessment (LCA) comparing two EOL strategies: (1) immediate recycling and (2) repurposing for an additional ten years prior to recycling. The analysis covers the entire battery life cycle, using real-world load profiles from a Thai fruit export community and projected electricity mixes under three national decarbonization pathways. Environmental performance is assessed across four impact categories: global warming potential, freshwater ecotoxicity, human non-carcinogenic toxicity, and mineral resource scarcity. Results highlight that the battery production and primary use phases contribute most to environmental impacts. However, second-life use can significantly offset emissions, especially in carbon-intensive grid scenarios. In the second-use phase, sensitivity analysis showed that variations in capacity degradation and usable cell rates did not affect the total energy savings or environmental outcomes when the lost capacity was compensated by additional repurposed batteries. Among all scenarios, repurposing batteries before recycling under “30% reduction in carbon intensity by 2030” policy achieved the highest overall sustainability score, offering a balanced reduction across all impact categories. Expert-weighted impact factors further enhance the robustness of the assessment. This study offers actionable insights for policymakers and stakeholders, supporting circular economy strategies and reinforcing the role of second-life applications in Thailand's low-carbon transition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"59 ","pages":"Pages 63-81"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144842502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Can hydrogen-powered air travel grow within the planetary limits?","authors":"Yat Yin Lai ,&nbsp;Alexis Laurent","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.08.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.08.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Air travel demand is rising rapidly and the aviation sector is relying on technology to decouple environmental impacts from its growth. Using Sweden as a case study, we assessed the absolute environmental sustainability of medium-distance air travel in 2050, positioning the aviation sector's environmental impacts in relation to the planetary limits. We employed a novel framework that integrates prospective life cycle assessment and absolute environmental sustainability assessment methodologies. Our findings suggest that projected medium-distance air travel powered by e-kerosene or liquid hydrogen could have life cycle environmental impacts that overshoot global climate change and biodiversity loss thresholds by several orders of magnitude. Based on our case results for Sweden, for aviation to develop within the planetary limits, we recommend cross-sector collaboration to address environmental impacts from fossil-free energy supplies and the establishment of integrated targets that incorporate broader environmental issues. Given the unlikelihood of decoupling growth from environmental impacts, policymakers and the aviation sector should consider concurrently supporting technological development and implementing measures to manage air travel demand.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"59 ","pages":"Pages 143-160"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144889938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Navigating the methanol industry paradox: Environmental gains versus economic realities in green methanol adoption","authors":"Xiu Gu ,&nbsp;Chengjiang Li ,&nbsp;Fengqi You ,&nbsp;Quande Qin ,&nbsp;Lu Sun ,&nbsp;Wenbo Li ,&nbsp;Jing Yang ,&nbsp;Liang Wang ,&nbsp;Wei Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.08.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.08.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The global urgency to decarbonize chemical and transportation sectors has positioned green methanol as a promising alternative to conventional fossil-based production. However, the complex interplay between environmental benefits and economic viability remains poorly understood. Here, this study developed an integrated Life Cycle Assessment-System Dynamics framework to evaluate the transition pathways of the methanol industry. Our analysis reveals a striking paradox: while green methanol reduces carbon emissions by 80 % in formaldehyde, production costs remain 46 % higher, which creates significant market resistance. This economic barrier leads to divergent adoption patterns, with transportation applications showing accelerated uptake while chemical production maintains traditional pathways. The model predicts that this bifurcated transition could accelerate industry decarbonization by allowing targeted investment. These findings provide insights for policymakers and industry stakeholders, suggesting that a segmented rather than uniform approach to green methanol adoption might be effective for achieving climate goals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"59 ","pages":"Pages 177-202"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144889874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}