LCA standards will continue to proliferate as long as there is no consensus on nomenclature and data quality criteria. This recurring problem is currently receiving attention again. Read on to learn about the initiatives working to solve it.
ReCiPe is a method for the life cycle impact assessment (LCIA). The primary objective of the method is to transform the long list of life cycle inventory results into a limited number of indicator scores.
Electric vehicles are lauded as the best passenger vehicles available today. But do they really have lower impacts than hybrid vehicles or the much-maligned internal combustion vehicles? This month's Sustainability Mythbusters.
Crops used for biofuels can also be used for food or animal feed. And even if other crops are more interesting as food, biofuels take up agricultural land. Does that mean that biofuels cause food shortages? This month's Sustainability Mythbusters.
A new study claims that it's better for the environment to eat bacon than it is to eat lettuce. But doesn't everybody else say that plant-based diets have a lower impact? This month in Sustainability Mythbusters: food fight!
Is it better to buy organic or conventionally farmed produce? The debate on that is ongoing, and touches at least as much on ethics as it does on facts. An important question is: in what way is it better? This month's Sustainability Mythbusters.
One reason to care about environmental impacts is that environmental pollution damages our health. But how do you quantify human health, or the lack of it, at different ages, and how do you apply that knowledge in your assessments?
LCA results can only be truly useful if your colleagues understand the importance and impact of your assessment. This article provides a few tips on how to help your company understand the results of a methodology as complex as LCA.
Zero-waste products sound like a sustainability professional's ultimate dream. But is it even possible to manufacture anything without creating waste? And what about the rest of the life cycle? Read more in this month's Sustainability Mythbusters.
Standardisation is a complex topic in LCA, which has as its goal to give a fair and thorough analysis of the entire life cycle. How to simplify data collection and analysis without missing the mark? The solution: the ‘virtual’ representative product.