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Expanded polystyrene (EPS) is the most commonly used fresh food refrigeration insulation in Korea and Europe. Moreover, as the use of disposable packaging materials has increased significantly along with non-face-to-face delivery services since the COVID-19 crisis, social issues related to waste disposal are also being raised. Therefore, in this study, the life cycle of EPS boxes for fresh food is focused on the factors that have a large difference between incineration and landfill including recycling in Europe and Korea in the disposal process after use, and raw materials and energy in the manufacturing process, which account for a large portion of the environmental impact value. We tried to compare the environmental impact of evaluation. Overall, the raw material production stage, box manufacturing stage, and packaging stage have similar processes in Europe and Korea, but unlike Europe, Korea, which lacks landfills and incineration facilities, has focused on expanding the recycling rate. It was necessary to do an environmental impact assessment. Data affecting the environment were derived based on 2019 and 2020 data for Korea and 2017 and 2020 data for Europe. In order to predict the future environmental impact assessment, assumptions about the disposal rate in 2025 and 2030 were introduced and evaluated. As a result of this study, it was found that the raw material production stage of EPS boxes, which have similar processes in both Korea and Europe, has the greatest effect on the global warming effect of Korean EPS boxes. However, Korea, which has a relatively high recycling rate in the disposal process compared to incineration and landfill, showed better environmental performance than Europe in most impact indicators except freshwater eutrophication. In particular, Korea has increased the overall recycling rate compared to Europe by replacing various recyclable materials such as building materials and sundries with XPS (extruded polystyrene) recycled materials. In conclusion, it was found that increasing the recycling rate rather than incinerating and landfilling EPS boxes for fresh food in the domestic EPS industry has relatively less environmental load compared to Europe.

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Abstract
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재료 및 방법
1. Functional unit and system boundary
2. 주요 설정 인자(Main assumptions)
3. Life cycle inventory analysis
4. Life cycle impact assessment
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저자

• 김수연 [ SY Kim | 고려대학교 생명공학과 ]
• CHAROENSRI KORAKOT [ 고려대학교 생명공학과 ]
• 신양재 [ YJ Shin | 고려대학교 생명공학과 ] Corresponding Author
• 박현진 [ HJ Park | 고려대학교 생명공학과 ]

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• 간행물명

  한국포장학회지 [Journal of Korea Society of Packaging Science & Technology]

• 간기

  연3회

• pISSN

  1226-0207

• 수록기간

  1994~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 530 DDC 620