Consider your audience when doing LCA
To make LCA results count, it’s important to consider your audience. For example, when you select your impact assessment method.
Ellen Meijer
As a consultant at PRé, Ellen’s work includes conducting LCA studies, project management, teaching LCA and SimaPro training and providing support for SimaPro users, amongst other things. She has experience working with a wide range of companies, from small businesses to large multinationals, and her areas of expertise include eco-design, scenario analysis and training.
Before joining PRé, Ellen worked as a researcher at the Design & Innovation department of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Under the supervision of experts in product design and LCA, she focused on the possibilities of using LCA in the design process. She co-authored an article in a peer-reviewed journal and presented her work at several sustainability-related conferences.
Ellen has a Master of Science degree in Industrial Design Engineering from the University of Twente (UT). During her studies, she focused on sustainable product development and eco-design. After graduating, she worked for PRé for three years before moving on to other endeavours. Now, she has returned to continue her work as a consultant.
Articles by Ellen Meijer
New report: Notable progress on the SDG-LCA methodology
To reach the UN SDGs by 2030, businesses must be able to get in on the work. Join us in developing a new LCA-based methodology to measure business contributions to the SDGs.
Three tips for sharing your LCA results with non-LCA colleagues
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.
Life cycle assessment and cradle to cradle: friends or foes?
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?
Sustainability metrics assessments helping mission-driven startups measure their impacts
PRé has always believed in and worked for a sustainable future and we believe insight into the environmental and social impacts of products is a crucial step towards this future. Our approach is one of collaboration, working with partners across the world and training companies to use sustainability metrics independently. So when looking for a way to give back, it made sense to us to use our years of experience with Life Cycle Assessment to help the next generation of mission-driven businesses.
Weighting: applying a value judgment to LCA results
This series of articles discusses the steps in an LCA, each explained by an expert consultant. Today, Ellen Meijer talks about weighting - or applying a value judgement to impact categories - and the controversies associated with this.
Announcement of second-wave EF pilots
The European Commission launched a pilot phase to develop environmental footprint (EF) rules for a series of industries. The second wave of PEF pilots just started, with 11 pilots of various product categories in the food and beverage industry.
Five crucial LCA features in SimaPro
PRé's technical consultant and SimaPro teacher, Ellen Meijer, shows you her five favorite tricks to help you become a SimaPro power user. These crucial features help you find errors, improve consistency, and make LCAs easier.
Highlights of the SETAC Europe 24th annual meeting
This SETAC conference is always an inspiring and educational event, with exciting sessions outlining recent impressive developments in environmental sciences and sustainability. PRé's technical analyst Ellen Meijer shares some of her highlights.
Does 3D printing offer an environmentally friendly future?
3D printing creates products without waste material or need for transport, storage, and packaging. An environmental production dream come true? How does it compare to standardized production methods such as injection molding?
Sustainability communication: share the good, the bad, and the ugly
How can you share your sustainability achievements in a trustworthy way and show your prospective customers that you have nothing to hide?
Why the carbon footprint is not enough
Our consultant, Ellen Meijer, shares her view on how the carbon footprint alone does not reveal the full picture of your effect on the environment.