Sentences with phrase «life cycle impact assessment»

Chiu, Y., Suh, S., Pfister, S., Hellweg, S., Koehler, A. 2012: Measuring ecological impact of water consumption by bioethanol using life cycle impact assessment.

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In a life cycle assessment (LCA) analyzing the environmental impact of hempcrete, the practitioner found that hemp sequesters approximately 1.7 kilograms CO2 per kilogram hemp.

Life Cycle Assessments and Life Cycle Thinking applies not just to products and packages themselves, but to the whole life cycle, from cradle - to - grave or cradle - to - cradle and includes the impacts of raw material sourcing, manufacture, product production, packaging, transportation, distribution, retail, consumer use and then post-use recovery or dispoLife Cycle Assessments and Life Cycle Thinking applies not just to products and packages themselves, but to the whole life cycle, from cradle - to - grave or cradle - to - cradle and includes the impacts of raw material sourcing, manufacture, product production, packaging, transportation, distribution, retail, consumer use and then post-use recovery or dispCycle Assessments and Life Cycle Thinking applies not just to products and packages themselves, but to the whole life cycle, from cradle - to - grave or cradle - to - cradle and includes the impacts of raw material sourcing, manufacture, product production, packaging, transportation, distribution, retail, consumer use and then post-use recovery or dispoLife Cycle Thinking applies not just to products and packages themselves, but to the whole life cycle, from cradle - to - grave or cradle - to - cradle and includes the impacts of raw material sourcing, manufacture, product production, packaging, transportation, distribution, retail, consumer use and then post-use recovery or dispCycle Thinking applies not just to products and packages themselves, but to the whole life cycle, from cradle - to - grave or cradle - to - cradle and includes the impacts of raw material sourcing, manufacture, product production, packaging, transportation, distribution, retail, consumer use and then post-use recovery or dispolife cycle, from cradle - to - grave or cradle - to - cradle and includes the impacts of raw material sourcing, manufacture, product production, packaging, transportation, distribution, retail, consumer use and then post-use recovery or dispcycle, from cradle - to - grave or cradle - to - cradle and includes the impacts of raw material sourcing, manufacture, product production, packaging, transportation, distribution, retail, consumer use and then post-use recovery or disposal.

The corrugated industry released its third life cycle assessment report in June 2017 measuring and documenting the cradle - to - cradle environmental impact of corrugated packaging manufactured in 2014.

Released to the public in June 2017, the latest corrugated industry life cycle assessment (LCA) confirms continued environmental progress through increased efficiencies in mill energy systems, increased use of low - impact fossil fuels, and increased recovery for recycling.

The members of the European Food Sustainable Consumption and Production Round Table are identifying scientifically reliable and uniform environmental assessment methodologies for food and drink products, including product category specifications where relevant, considering their significant impacts across the entire product life - cycle.

* Based on streamlined life cycle assessment (LCA) by Environmental Packaging International on various packaging options, using a web - based Packaging Impact Quick Evaluation Tool (PIQET).

The study used life cycle assessment (LCA) to estimate the impacts of microwave appliances, taking into account their manufacture, use and end - of - life waste management.

«However, in general, the Algal Biomass Organization firmly believes life cycle assessments are critical to the development of the industry, given the need to accurately assess and quantify the environmental impact of algae - derived energy,» she said.

Daniel Goleman's book Ecological Intelligence explores the impact of knowing the environmental cost of everything; this excerpt explores how the rigorous assessment of the entire life cycle of a product reveals its costs and trade - offs

Environmental economists try to calculate the environmental impacts from making products by using tools called life - cycle assessments or «multi-regional input - output» models, abbreviated MRIO.

He is providing key pieces of the puzzle to help progress the development of electric cars, and shows in his thesis how life cycle assessment, LCA, can be used to minimise their environmental impact in the long term.

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a systems method that provides a holistic overview of a product's environmental impact over its life cycle from raw material extraction, through production processes and use, to waste management, including all transportation and energy consumption in the intermediate staLife cycle assessment (LCA) is a systems method that provides a holistic overview of a product's environmental impact over its life cycle from raw material extraction, through production processes and use, to waste management, including all transportation and energy consumption in the intermediate stalife cycle from raw material extraction, through production processes and use, to waste management, including all transportation and energy consumption in the intermediate stages.

Geyer and Zinc are experts in life - cycle assessment (LCA), which quantifies the environmental impacts of products and services throughout their life cycle, from resource extraction through use and end of life.

In order to study the different configurations of RWH, the following methodologies were used: exergy analysis and exergetic efficiency analysis to determine resource consumption and efficiency; life cycle assessment (LCA) to identify environmental impacts; life cycle costing (LCC) to find economic feasibility, and data envelopment analysis (DEA) to identify the frontiers of best - practice towards sustainability.

The study, commissioned by CHEOPS - a perovskite research project co-funded by the European research and innovation programme Horizon 2020, is being conducted by SmartGreenScans, a CHEOPS member, specialising in Life - Cycle Assessments (LCA) of photovoltaic technologies, to assess the life - cycle environmental impact of the perovskite - on - silicon tandem cells being commercialised by OxfordLife - Cycle Assessments (LCA) of photovoltaic technologies, to assess the life - cycle environmental impact of the perovskite - on - silicon tandem cells being commercialised by OxforCycle Assessments (LCA) of photovoltaic technologies, to assess the life - cycle environmental impact of the perovskite - on - silicon tandem cells being commercialised by Oxfordlife - cycle environmental impact of the perovskite - on - silicon tandem cells being commercialised by Oxforcycle environmental impact of the perovskite - on - silicon tandem cells being commercialised by Oxford PV.

You've probably heard the term at some point or undoubtedly read about it in other posts: «life cycle assessment» (sometimes «life cycle analysis» or «LCA»), that fascinating methodology that considers the impacts of a product or process from

«Our analysis is a world - first look at the true cost of tourism — including consumables such as food from eating out and souvenirs — it's a complete life - cycle assessment of global tourism, ensuring we don't miss any impacts,» said Arunima Malik from the School of Physics at the University of Sydney.

By including a comprehensive assessment of all the factors contributing to tourism - related emissions, from transportation to souvenirs, the report presents «a complete life - cycle assessment of global tourism, ensuring we don't miss any impacts,» senior study author Arunima Malik, of the University of Sydney in Australia, said in a statement.

A First Climate life cycle assessment enables you, together with your partners in the production process, to fully understand your product's environmental impact and identify opportunities to optimize product performance while minimizing resource consumption.

Our life cycle assessments analyze the climate impact inherent to the production of goods, at all stages of the value chain.

Through various life cycle assessment studies (Searchinger et al, 2008; DeCicco et al, 2016) performed on annual bioenergy crops such as corn, it has been shown that they are not much better than fossil fuel energy sources in terms of climate and energy impacts.

Geyer R, Stoms D, Lindner J, Davis F, Wittstock B (2010) Coupling LCA and GIS for biodiversity assessments of land use: Part 2 — Impact assessment, International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 15 (7), 692 - 703.

Geyer and Zink are experts in life - cycle assessment (LCA), which quantifies the environmental impacts of products and services throughout their life cycle, from resource extraction through use and end of life.

Similarly, an assessment of lithium - ion batteries released by the Swedish Environmental Research Institute last year found GHG emissions from battery production were largely due to the manufacturing process, while mining and refining had a relatively small impact on the life cycle.

Its long title is, Screening environmental life cycle assessment of print, web based and tablet e-paper newspaper, and the results are somewhat surprising: Each Method Has Different Impact Area The researchers looked at everything that goes into reporting the news, publishing it either in print, online or distributing it to an e-reader, how it is read (number of readers per copy being an issue) and then disposed of.

Life cycle analyses or assessments evaluate all of the potential environmental impacts that a product can have during its existence — they're a more focused version of a carbon footprint.