The 6th International Conference on Life Cycle Management in Gothenburg 2013 EVALUATION OF BRAZILIAN SCENARIOS OF REVERSE LOGISTICS OF AIR COMPRESSORS USING THE LIFE CYCLE

In order to reduce environmental damage on the activity of transporting goods, this article carried out the environmental analysis of reverse logistics for an air compressor. We compared three scenarios: a Hypothetical Scenario (HS), a Possible Scenario (PS) and a scenario suggested in the literature called Reference Scenario (RS), using the methodology of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), standardized by the ISO 14040/14044 (2006). The results showed that the possible scenario of reverse logistics which uses almost exclusively railroad has approximately 20 % less environmental impacts than the reference scenario