Quantifying the impact of plastic additives on marine biota in life cycle assessment
Session 04: Enhancing the Sustainability of Marine Environment
Plastic pervades now almost every aspect of our daily lives, but this prosperity has led to an increasing amount of plastic debris, which is now widespread in the oceans and represents a serious threat to...
Reducing the carbon footprint of spirits through circular packaging: case study for Smirnoff Ice.
Session 02: Supporting the journey towards net zero and beyond with Life Cycle Approaches (2)
The global alcoholic beverage industry is an important economic sector with a retail sales value of £728 billion [4] and one of the major consumers of glass packaging [2]. Excellent barrier properties, sterility, reusability, and...
Safe and Sustainable: including health and environmental chemical risks in a life cycle perspective for assessment of chemicals
Session 03: Life Cycle Innovation in the Chemical Sector
A common approach in frameworks designed to assess safety and sustainability of chemicals (e.g. UBA 2016) is that they address the safety/inherent hazard aspect of the chemical in question, as a first assessment criterium. Other...
Social Life Cycle Assessment of Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles
Session 12: Addressing the Social Dimension of Sustainability
Various technologies are developed for a successful energy and mobility transition. Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEV) are one of them as hydrogen offers a cross-sectoral approach for the challenge of matching electricity generation and demand....
Social Risk and Social Performance Evaluation of Battery Raw Materials
Session 10: Life Cycle Innovation in the Transport and Mobility Sector (2)
In the production of electric vehicles, natural resource supply chains are frequently complicated and are rooted worldwide. Electric mobility, which is powered by lithium-ion batteries, requires more natural resources than cars powered by internal combustion...
Spatial and temporal aspects of Neighbourhood Impacting Environment
Session 11: Fostering Regional Sustainable Development through Life Cycle Approaches
Studies on environmental impact of modern constructions have been conventionally studied through life cycle analysis (LCA). LCA helps to identify and quantify specific impacts of product, materials, or buildings. According to the available literature, life-cycle...
State of Progress – An Update on The Marine Litter in LCA (MarILCA) Project
Session 04: Enhancing the Sustainability of Marine Environment
Streamlining LCA process using Simplification and DMAIC framework for process improvisation and cycle time reduction: A pragmatic LCA approach for engineering organizations
Session 18: Life Cycle Innovation and Eco-Design
In recent years, manufacturing organizations are increasingly looking beyond the financial aspects of their operations to integrate environmental (ecological) concerns into the decision-making process. Accordingly, the need to embed sustainability in the value chain has...
Supply chain environmental impacts of lithium-ion batteries production and future emissions
Session 10: Life Cycle Innovation in the Transport and Mobility Sector (2)
Battery electric vehicles are key to decarbonise the transport sector, but high market penetration requires material-intensive production (from mining to manufacturing). Understanding the current and future global environmental impacts of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) production is...
The experience of Navarra Region using life cycle assessment and management tools
Session 11: Fostering Regional Sustainable Development through Life Cycle Approaches
Following COP26 many regions now see life cycle thinking as indispensible in their pursuit of a local sustainability agenda. This paper reports the experience of the Navarra region in Spain in its use of life...
The potential of data-science approaches for improving data collection, exchange, and analysis in Life Cycle Assessment
Session 06: Innovative Ways to Assess Sustainability with Life Cycle Approaches
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is dependent on accurate and high-quality data from the entire product lifecycle. The lack of such product and process data can make LCAs inaccurate. Moreover, data-driven decisions based on these results...
The Potential of Hydrothermal Liquefaction Fuel to Decarbonize the Aviation Sector
Session 09: Life Cycle Innovation in the Transport and Mobility Sector (1)
Hydrothermal Liquefaction (HTL) is a thermochemical process, which can produce transportation fuels from a wide range of biogenic raw materials, such as forestry residues, straw, sewage sludge, manure or microalgae. Thanks to its feedstock flexibility,...
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