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Greenhouse gasCarbon footprintLife-cycle assessmentEnvironmental scienceRenewable energyFossil fuelBiomass (ecology)Production (economics)Raw materialWaste managementNatural resource economicsEngineeringEconomics
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- 9
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- 5
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- 374-378
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- 1096
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Jiajia Zheng,
Sangwon Suh
(2019).
Strategies to reduce the global carbon footprint of plastics.
Nature Climate Change
, 9
(5)
, 374-378.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0459-z
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- DOI
- 10.1038/s41558-019-0459-z