Data supporting the comparative life cycle assessment of different municipal solid waste management scenarios

Mohammad Ali Rajaeifar; Meisam Tabatabaei; Hossein Ghanavati

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2015.02.020

Data supporting the comparative life cycle assessment of different municipal solid waste management scenarios

Data Brief. 2015 Mar 20:3:189-94. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2015.02.020. eCollection 2015 Jun.

Authors

Mohammad Ali Rajaeifar¹, Meisam Tabatabaei², Hossein Ghanavati³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biosystems Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran. ; Biofuel Research Team (BRTeam), Karaj, Iran.
² Biofuel Research Team (BRTeam), Karaj, Iran ; Microbial Biotechnology and Biosafety Department, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran (ABRII), AREEO, 3135933151 Karaj, Iran.
³ Biofuel Research Team (BRTeam), Karaj, Iran ; Tim-Kian Co., Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Environmental assessment of municipal solid waste (MSW) management scenarios would help to select eco-friendly scenarios. In this study, the inventory data in support of life cycle assessment of different MSW are presented. The scenarios were defined as: anaerobic digestion (AD, Sc-0), landfilling combined with composting (Sc-1), incineration (Sc-2), incineration combined with composting (Sc-3), and AD combined with incineration (Sc-4). The current article contains flowcharts of the different scenarios. Additionally, six supplementary files including inventory data on the different scenarios, data on the different damage assessment categories, normalization, and single scores are presented (Supplementary files 1-6). The analysis of the different scenarios revealed that the most eco-friendly scenario to be implemented in the future would be the combination of AD and incineration (Sc-4).