The commercial availability of resources and preliminary products is of essential importance for the industry. One aim of manufacturing companies is to know about structural dependencies in the availability of resources along the entire value chain of their products and to also not only know about environmental impacts of a product but also to have information about the economic life cycle and ...

Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) are the scientific approaches behind modern environmental policies and business decision support related to Sustainable Consumption and Production. For the efficient and reliable application of LCA, it is necessary that LCA studies are based on consistent, transparent, and qualityassured Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) data. To manage and pro...

As extended producer responsibility gains ascendancy in sustainable development, proper management of the life cycle of a product is becoming more and more important. This paper presents a general overview of product life cycle assessment (LCA) and sustainable product packaging over the last four to five years. The review of life cycle assessment includes on overview of LCAs conducted over the ...

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has gained attention because it enables quantitative evaluation of the burden a product places on the environment. However, acceptance of LCA has proceeded slowly because a large amount of work is required to gather the environmental burden data used in the evaluation. To shorten this work time, we utilize readily-accessible databases both internal and external to th...

Environmental performances of electricity generation, expressed as environmental impacts per kWh of electricity produced, depend strongly on technical, methodological and geographical parameters. When considering the global environmental performances of renewable energies, a geo-dependent life cycle assessment (LCA) taking into account geographical issues is of high interest. To illustrate this...

This paper presents preliminary research on a new simplified tool for life cycle environmental evaluation using linguistic interpretation through the use of fuzzy logic: the fuzzy Life Cycle evaluation (FuzLCe) tool. This new tool is compared to full-scale LCA and a streamlined LCA (environmentally responsible product assessment, ERPA) using a site remediation case study. The use of fuzzy logic...

A waste Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tool, called Waste and Resources Assessment Tool for the Environment (WRATE) has been developed on the behalf of the Environment Agency for England and Wales, Scottish Environment Protection Agency and Department of Environment, Northern Ireland. This tool provides life cycle information to municipal authorities, central government and other stakeholders invo...

This report presents automotive applications of life cycle assessment (LCA) which has attracted public attention as an e!ective tool for evaluating environmental burdens quantitatively. It also reviews the background of how LCA has been introduced, and discusses future possibilities of LCA applications to automobiles as well as important aspects of LCA. ( 1999 Society of Automotive Engineers of...

Nowadays, a vast number of concrete structures are approaching the end their expected service life. The need for maintenance and repair is high due to continued deterioration existing building inventory infrastructure, resulting in large near future. Reinforcement corrosion most important mechanism, causing (i) severe damage (cracking along reinforcement spalling cover concrete) (ii) loss steel...

the spanish turbot aquaculture sector holds a top position in the international market. thisactivity is mainly developed along the galician coast (nw spain). this article evaluates the environmentalperformance of galician turbot aquaculture according to the life cycle assessment (lca) methodology.previously, on account of the expected relevance of feed for aquaculture, marine aquafeed productio...