ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we present a provisional approach to overcoming the disadvantages of site-generic and site-specific methods. This approach is one of the recently developed site-dependent impact assessment methods that can be considered a trade-off between exactness and feasibility. As with site-specific approaches, fate, exposure and effect information are taken into account, but indicators applicable for classes of emission sites rather than for specific sites are calculated. That is the trade-off between the accurate assessment of the impacts and the practicability of spatial disaggregation for impact assessments in a life-cycle perspective. A flowchart for site-dependent impact assessment is proposed and the algorithm of the methodology is applied using site-dependent impact indicators calculated for Catalonia. The impact indicators are applied with interesting results on the waste transport and incineration processes to the industrial process chain of the municipal waste incinerator of Tarragona, one of the biggest cities in Catalonia.
