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This work calculates and discusses the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of four scenarios composed of two types of road pavements and two types of lighting systems to be built in an Italian twin-tube road tunnel. A 20-year time horizon is adopted to assess the burdens of construction and maintenance of both flexible and rigid pavements and high-pressure sodium (HPS) and lightemitting diode (LED) lamps, traffic, and switching on of lamps.

Integrated waste management and sustainable use of natural resources are the basis of the
Green Economy. In this context, the management of the Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Bottom
Ashes (MSWI BA) is one of the current issues worldwide. This paper presents an application of the
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) procedure to the industrial production of ceramic tiles using bottom
ashes in the mixture together with feldspathic sands and clays. The comparison between ashes and

The great concern regarding food loss (FL) has been studied previously, but in an isolated way, disregarding interdependencies with other areas. This paper aims to go a step further by proposing a new procedure to assess different waste management alternatives based on the nexus approach by means of an integrated Water-Energy-Food-Climate Nexus Index (WEFCNI).

This work presents the results of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of two different types of road crosssections
(i.e. embankment and trench sections) with the objective of calculating and analysing the
environmental and human health impact related to their construction processes. The geometrical and
technical characteristics of the examined sections comply with current Italian standards for minor
highways. After analysing a base case scenario, the study evaluated the influence of several transportation