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The interest of car producers in recycling of materials at the end of the car life is growing: LCA is the environmental impact analysis tool able to give useful information about the life cycle of these materials from an energy and ecological point of view. Car glass production and glass recycling from a car at the end of its life is here analyzed using the LCA methodology: in particular the energy consumption and all kinds of emission evaluation can help to understand the difference between glass from virgin and recycled material. A critical point of the analysis involving recycled materials is the energy content of the secondary materials: this case study of LCA application in the automotive industry offers a good example to evaluate the importance of this critical point and to give rise to discussion about the energy content of scrap.
