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Melissa Bilec

University of Pittsburgh - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Scholarly Papers (5)

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From Disposable to Reusable Pulse Oximetry Probes: Life Cycle Assessment, Cost, and Behavior Change Case Study

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 01 May 2025
Nathalia Silva de Souza Lima Cano, Diane Cancilla, Colvin Raymond, Juliana Watenpool, Daria Segers, Noedahn Copley-Woods, Melissa Bilec and Isabela C. Angelelli
University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh - UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh - UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh - UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh - UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and University of Pittsburgh - UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
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Pulse Oximetry, Reusable, Behavioral Change Intervention, Life Cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Analysis, Global Warming Potential, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Environmental Impact

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Single-use plastics in healthcare across five facilities: Using life cycle and material flow analyses to inform circular economy scenarios

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 26 Dec 2025
Nathalia Silva de Souza Lima Cano, Michael Boninger, Noe Woods, Isabela C. Angelelli, Robert J. Paugh and Melissa Bilec
University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Pittsburgh - UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh - Medical Center (UPMC) and University of Pittsburgh - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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healthcare sustainability, Life cycle assessment, Material Flow Analysis, Single-use plastics, Resource efficiency, healthcare waste management

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Disposable Plastic Consumption and Climate Impacts Across a Multiple-Hospital System

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 01 Jul 2025
Nathalia Silva de Souza Lima Cano, Michael Boninger, Noedahn Copley-Woods, Isabela Cajiao Angelelli, Robert J. Paugh and Melissa Bilec
University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh - Medical Center (UPMC), University of Pittsburgh - Medical Center (UPMC) and University of Pittsburgh - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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healthcare sustainability, climate change mitigation, circular economy, single-use plastics, life cycle assessment, material flow analysis, low-carbon health systems, sustainable procurement, health systems

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Environmental Impacts of Different Circularity Strategies for Plastics: LCA of Plastic Barriers Used During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the U.S

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 26 Apr 2023
Melissa Bilec, Nathalia Silva de Souza Lima Cano and Md. Uzzal Hossain
University of Pittsburgh - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh
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Plastics, life cycle assessment, waste, end of life, recycling, circular economy

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Introducing the Circular Economy to Economists

Annual Review of Resource Economics, Vol. 14, Issue 1, pp. 493-514, 2022
Posted: 12 Oct 2022
Don Fullerton, Callie W. Babbitt, Melissa Bilec, Shan He, Cindy Isenhour, Vikas Khanna, Eunsang Lee and Thomas L. Theis
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Finance, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) - Golisano Institute for Sustainability, University of Pittsburgh - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Maine, University of Pittsburgh - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Illinois at Chicago

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