Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of sisal/PLA biocomposite: Uncovering the dominance of transport and burden-shifting trade-offs in sustainable material design

• Nickson Severian Kahigi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nickson Severian Kahigi, Revocatus Machunda, Josephine Joseph Mkunda, Mwema Felix Mwema

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: kahigin@nm-aist.ac.tz

  Affiliations School of Materials, Energy, Water and Environmental Science (MEWES), The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Arusha, Tanzania, Department of Business Management, The Mbeya University of Science and Technology (MUST), Mbeya, Tanzania

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-7686-8912

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• Revocatus Machunda ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nickson Severian Kahigi, Revocatus Machunda, Josephine Joseph Mkunda, Mwema Felix Mwema

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Materials, Energy, Water and Environmental Science (MEWES), The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Arusha, Tanzania

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• Josephine Joseph Mkunda ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nickson Severian Kahigi, Revocatus Machunda, Josephine Joseph Mkunda, Mwema Felix Mwema

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Business Studies and Humanities (BuSH), The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Arusha, Tanzania

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1738-6515

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• Mwema Felix Mwema

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nickson Severian Kahigi, Revocatus Machunda, Josephine Joseph Mkunda, Mwema Felix Mwema

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Materials, Energy, Water and Environmental Science (MEWES), The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Arusha, Tanzania

  https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1084-2497

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