Harmonized calculation methods for product carbon footprint and life cycle assessments in the mining and metals industry
The mining and metals industry faces an increasing demand for product carbon footprint (PCF) and life cycle assessment (LCA) information requested by customers, investors, and legislators. In parallel, the number of standards and guidelines according...
How LCA can support the development of circular economy assessment tool? A proposition at product level
Session 16: Applying Systems Thinking to guide the transition towards a regenerative Circular Economy (2)
While publications on circular economy (CE) indicators have increased over the past four years, they tend to be scattered sporadically among the field of knowledge on environmental sustainability. It is time for current developments in...
Impact of upscaling on the environmental impacts of Hydrogen Plasma Smelting Reduction (HPSR) process
It is essential to understand the future environmental impacts of emerging technologies, while still at the design stage, in order to make informed decisions. Projecting the process flow diagram (PFD) of the deployment-ready state of...
Influence of Allocation Methods on Well-to-Wake Life Cycle GHG Emissions of Marine Biofuels
Accurate assessment of the greenhouse gas (GHG) performance of marine biofuels depends heavily on how co-products are handled in life-cycle assessment (LCA). The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) LCA Guidelines 2024 specify that maritime fuels should...
Insights into the development and use of a quantitative eco-design tool for the early development stages of medical devices
Session 18: Life Cycle Innovation and Eco-Design
Eco-design tools for the early stages of the development process are often qualitative. Quantitative assessments of environmental impact, like Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), can be difficult to apply early on, when a lot of questions...
Integration of Life Cycle Assessment into Health Economic Evaluation: CHEERS ClimatE checklist
Objective: The healthcare sector emits 4.4% of global greenhouse gases (GHG). However, the Earth´s capacity to absorb these emissions is a scarce resource. One method for addressing scarce resources in the healthcare sector is health...
LCA of garment making and influence of the product quality
The production phase has been identified as a major source of burdens in the garment life cycle (European Commission et al., 2014). The garment making stage is the last one in the production phase and...
Life Cycle Assessment and eco-design of terrestrial and satellite video distribution
The development of the use of OTT (over-the-top) video services is illustrated by the exploitation of an impressive figure of 70% of the internet backbone bandwidth. Although there is room for eco-friendly improvement, as often...
Life Cycle Assessment of Albumin for Diagnostic Assays
Due to its properties to bind a wide variety of organic and inorganic ligands, the albumin protein from bovine plasma is an important ingredient in many Roche diagnostic assays, acting as a stabilising agent or...
Life Cycle Assessment of CARBIOS enzymatic biorecycling technology: powering PET plastic and textile circularity
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is one of the most used polyester plastics in a broad range of applications. However, like other plastics, it is prone to leakage into the environment and post-consumer PET waste is not...
Life Cycle Assessment of Fuel Blends Integrating Green Hydrogen in Ceramic Tile Manufacturing
The ceramic tile industry is one of Europe’s most energy-intensive sectors, traditionally dependent on natural gas for firing kilns. In the context of industrial decarbonization and circular economy strategies, integrating green hydrogen as part of...
Life Cycle Assessment of protection of young trees within sustainable forestry – specific challenges and results of comparing different measures
Session 02: Supporting the journey towards net zero and beyond with Life Cycle Approaches (2)
Forests are a key element within strategies facing and fighting climate change. The protection of young trees is essential for the future of forests and a main task of forest management. The task of young...
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