Packaging materials are often discarded the moment a product comes into your house, only to end up in incinerators or landfills. That makes packaging seem like the bad guy. But is it, really? Find out in this month's Sustainability Mythbusters.
LCA is a quantitative, bottom-up sustainability tool. C2C is qualitative and top-down. LCA provides numbers; C2C provides stories. Often, it is thought that the two methods are incompatible. But is this really true? Or can they work together?
We conducted research among 274 respondents in 28 countries to find out what the struggles and the drivers are that LCA Champions find in their organization.
The business world needs a more holistic approach to value creation. In a business model based on life cycle thinking, everyone involved can derive value from their participation in creating a value proposition. This might just be the way forward.
If you want a decisive answer to a straightforward sustainability question, getting a vague answer from your company's sustainability professionals is frustrating. This article explains why they do that and how you can help get the answer you need.
LCAs are too valuable to end up unread at the bottom of a pile. Before LCA practitioners can claim their seat at strategy discussions, they face the challenge of making the other departments understand the relevance of LCA for their work.
Other departments in your organisation already look to you to provide information on your company's environmental impacts. With the Social Hotspots Database, you can help them make even better decision by looking at your social impacts as well.
The Monte Carlo simulation is a well-known way of dealing with the fact that most environmental data isn't confined to a single value but falls in a range of values with some sort of probability attached. But how does it actually work?
LCA is science-driven and robust, but showing its value is not always easy. A big step LCA practitioners can take is learning to use LCA to tell the stories of your products, your people, and your company. How can you use LCA to meet needs?
We measure business models through a conventional cost-benefit analysis, and we do that even in what are considered sustainable business models. Is that the way to go, and does it reflect all values that are created?