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using a non-renewable oil based material in an absorbent hygiene
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i: Poster presentation at the Eforwood conference 'Shape your
sustainability tools - and let your tools shape you', 23-24
September 2009, Uppsala, Sweden. ; s. 2-3 Konferensbidrag
(övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract - The WooDi project – the Wood
based Diaper, is a research collaboration between industry and
university. The goal of the project is to make a new diaper that
is more sustainable than today’s product, by replacing non-
renewable North Sea oil based materials in the diaper with a
renewable material based on wood from the Nordic countries. This
calls for a way to compare the sustainability associated with
using the different raw materials. Comparisons of the
implications of using crude oil and biomass resources have so
far mainly been made for fuels used in transportation. The
available literature assessing the us