Life Cycle Impacts Archives - Page 3 of 8

Developing socio-economic indicators for overall life cycle sustainability assessment of retail sector – case of Colruyt Group

Session WE.2.B || Social Life Cycle Assessment of Products Authors Adibi, Naeem; Van Hemelryck, Steven; McHardy, Cara; Voorend, Wannes Abstract Industry, policymakers and consumers are incorporating environmental and social well-being as part of their practices. Life cycle assessment is a widely used method to assess the environmental impacts of processes, products and services. Meanwhile, social [...]

Developing socio-economic indicators for overall life cycle sustainability assessment of retail sector – case of Colruyt Grouplcm20212021-09-30T20:01:04+00:00

Co-Creating a Standard for Circularity: An iterative, collaborative approach.

Authors Vanacore, Emanuela; Boyer, Robert H. W.; Carlsson, Raul; Diener, Derek; Lindahl, Mattias; Carlson, Annelie Abstract Recently, policy makers, governments, business and society are notably more interested in circular economy (CE). The main danger in turbulent times is to act with yesterday’s logic. This, combined with a lack of CE experience, makes business leaders and [...]

Co-Creating a Standard for Circularity: An iterative, collaborative approach.lcm20212021-09-30T20:01:04+00:00

Social Life Cycle Impact Assessment of Poultry Production in Indonesia

Session WE.2.B || Social Life Cycle Assessment of Products Authors Saputra, Sharah Yunihar; Yunus, Khalda; ., Marcellina; Hanafi, Jessica; Traverso, Marzia; Monteiro, Kevin; Djohan, Erwin; Adiwijaya, David Abstract Japfa Ltd through its subsidiary PT Japfa Comfeed Indonesia Tbk has been embracing over 10,000 local poultry farmers in Indonesia to produce commercial live birds through a [...]

Social Life Cycle Impact Assessment of Poultry Production in Indonesialcm20212021-09-30T20:01:03+00:00

Assessing Environmental Impacts of Construction Products: The Role of Embedded and Operational Impacts in the Environmental Performance of Wooden Windows

Session MO.2.E || What Gets Measured, Gets Improved – Impact Assessment and Environmental Labeling Along the Production Chain II Authors Del Rosario, Pamela; Palumbo, Elisabetta; Traverso, Marzia Abstract The building sector plays an important role in addressing pressing environmental issues such as climate change and resource scarcity. So far, significant attention has been directed towards [...]

Assessing Environmental Impacts of Construction Products: The Role of Embedded and Operational Impacts in the Environmental Performance of Wooden Windowslcm20212021-09-30T20:01:03+00:00

Social LCA application based on the SEEbalance® approach

Session WE.2.B || Social Life Cycle Assessment of Products Authors Saling, Peter Abstract The Social LCA in our approach considers system boundaries by defining “system operators” comparable to unit processes of environmental LCA. We selected impact categories from different publications, e.g. the Round table for Product social metrics and established a framework how to address [...]

Social LCA application based on the SEEbalance® approachlcm20212021-09-30T20:01:03+00:00