Integrated sustainability assessment of hemicellulose-based products

The aim of this study in D6.7 is to i) evaluate the potential sustainability benefits of the innovative processes and to ii) compare the HMC-based products with their conventional/fossil equivalents in terms of implications for sustainability. Another important goal of the study is to identify optimisation potentials to determine focal areas for the further development of the BioSPRINT concept. The study joins the previous assessments of environmental, techno-economic, socio-economic as well as process and product safety aspects into an overall picture and analyses them collectively to give an integrated view of the implications for sustainability associated with the BioSPRINT concept.