Modern societal functioning is intricately intertwined with the omnipresence of plastics. Within industrial domains, composite materials featuring an epoxy matrix have garnered extensive utilization. However, using such glass fiber-reinforced polymer composites poses many environmental problems due to high energy consumption and pollutant emissions during production. This work focuses on analyzing the environmental impact of newly developed resin compositions that will be applied in cryogenic conditions. Composite materials belong to engineering materials that are continuously evolving. As a result, there are imposed requirements for them to have very precise environmental parameters. It is evident that in the future, manufacturers of composite materials will be required to provide declarations of environmental impact. Currently, there are very few comprehensive environmental analyses of such materials in the scientific literature. Based on the calculation of carbon footprint (CF) emissions, it was found that composites that used resin A are less harmful than compositions with resin B. Recipe 2016 Midpoint (H) LCIA methodologies indicated that resin B production has the most significant adverse environmental impacts - global warming, human toxicity (non-carcinogenic), water consumption and marine aquatic ecotoxicity. It is clear that Resin B has a detrimental impact on the environment. The categories of chemical ingredients, electricity, and heat have increased by 22.34 %, 23.36 %, and 89.11 %, respectively, compared to Resin A. The obtained results were compared with literature data. This work is novel due to the provided environmental data from a company producing composite materials in Poland.
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