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Life Cycle Assessment

This document discusses life cycle assessment (LCA), which is a method used to evaluate the environmental impacts of a product or service over its lifetime. It describes key aspects of conducting an LCA, including defining the goal and scope, performing an inventory analysis through data collection, conducting an impact assessment, and interpreting the results. Various types of LCA are outlined based on system boundaries such as cradle to gate, gate to gate, or cradle to grave. The document provides examples of how organizations can use LCA for purposes like product development, strategic planning, and marketing sustainability claims.

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Life Cycle Assessment

This document discusses life cycle assessment (LCA), which is a method used to evaluate the environmental impacts of a product or service over its lifetime. It describes key aspects of conducting an LCA, including defining the goal and scope, performing an inventory analysis through data collection, conducting an impact assessment, and interpreting the results. Various types of LCA are outlined based on system boundaries such as cradle to gate, gate to gate, or cradle to grave. The document provides examples of how organizations can use LCA for purposes like product development, strategic planning, and marketing sustainability claims.

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 Research method to evaluate the

environmental impact associated with the


life of a product or service

 Environmental Foot prints and Carbon


Foot prints
 Insights in the environmental impact: You,
your clients or investors want insights in the
environmental impact of your products or
production process.
 Cost reduction: You aim to get insights in saving
options for energy and materials which are used in
the production process.
 Substantiate a strategic decision: You want
to make certain strategic decisions, which
need supporting information.
 Development of innovations: You want to
know the environmental advantages of certain
innovation ideas.

 Increase market value: You want to increase


market value, for instance by communication
about the sustainability of your products
USE Review/V DATA Deliverabl Expected
erification es Duration
Screenin Internal Internal Company Presentati Approx 1 –
g LCA Review Specific on or 5 Months
report
External Independ Company Presentati Approx 3 –
Product ent Specific/ on or/and 5 Months
LCA External Supply report
Review Chain
Specific
Compara External Independ Company Presentati Approx 5
tive LCA ent Specific/ on or/and Months
External Supply report
Review Chain
Specific
 Cradle to Grave
 Cradle to Gate
 Cradle to Gate
 Gate to Gate
 Gate to Grave
 Gate to Grave
1. Goal and Scope :
 What is the reason for carrying out the
study?
 What is the indented application?
 What is the targeted audience of the
deliverables?
 What to analyze and how?
2. Inventory Analysis: Data Collection
 Collection of data
 Data modeling
 Result: Inventory table, an extensive list of
environmental interventions
3. Impact Assessment
 Determine the environmental impact of
reference flows for different impact
categories
 Translate inventory table into impact
indicator results

CH4 CO2 NO3 NH3 H20


etc
4. Interpretation
 Consistency check
 Completeness check
 Report/Presentation
 Self Assessment
 Product Development
 Product Improvement
 Strategic Planning
 Policy making/intervention
 LCA OF T-Shirt
 Preferably 100% cotton
 Klash Textile (Preferable brand “NEXT”)
 Software for Data Analysis: GaBi 8.0
 In the beginning we are focusing on
Gate to Gate

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