What is Life Cycle Assessment LCA?
- Method of judging a product's overall environmental performance
What does LCA quantify?
- It examines all the different elements including:
- raw material extraction
- manufacture
- transport
- sale and usage
- disposal or waste processing.
- For each stage an inventory is made of energy and material comsumption, and of any emissions introduced to the environment.
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Life Cycle Assessment
Life Cycle Assessment is an objective process to evaluate the environmental burdens associated with a product, process, or activity by identifying energy and materials used and wastes released to the environment, and to evaluate and implement opportunities to affect environmental improvements. (SETAC, 1990)
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