Klement, Thijs Hendrik Rik (2020) Sustainability of drinking cup usage at the University of Groningen. Integration Project, Industrial Engineering and Management.
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Abstract
Worldwide, up to 500 billion disposable drinking cups are disposed of every year. Because, on many locations, as the University of Groningen, disposable cups are the norm. Here, The Green Office sees opportunity for sustainable improvement. Throughout the product life cycle of cups, relevant elements of usage are assessed and valuated in terms of pollution and energy requirement. Production, reusable washing and end of life are the most relevant. In the end, the findings are interrelated and made interactive in an advisory model. Driven by a user configurator, and database containing valued sustainability assessment elements. The model provides user specific information and advice on cup usage behavior, predominantly after how many uses of a reusable cup would beat usage of disposable cups. Concluded is that, the majority of cup users on the University of Groningen should switch to reusable cup usage, to improve the sustainability of the drinking cup usage system.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Integration Project) |
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| Supervisor name: | Bosch, A.J. |
| Degree programme: | Industrial Engineering and Management |
| Thesis type: | Integration Project |
| Language: | English |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jun 2020 12:38 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Jun 2020 12:38 |
| URI: | https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/22229 |
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