Recent developments in life cycle assessment

G Finnveden, MZ Hauschild, T Ekvall, J Guinée… - Journal of environmental …, 2009 - Elsevier
Life Cycle Assessment is a tool to assess the environmental impacts and resources used
throughout a product's life cycle, ie, from raw material acquisition, via production and use …

Life cycle assessment in green chemistry: overview of key parameters and methodological concerns

LM Tufvesson, P Tufvesson, JM Woodley… - … International Journal of …, 2013 - Springer
Purpose Several articles within the area of green chemistry often promote new techniques or
products as 'green'or 'more environmentally benign'than their conventional counterpart …

[图书][B] Life cycle assessment (LCA): a guide to best practice

W Klöpffer, B Grahl - 2014 - books.google.com
This first hands-on guide to ISO-compliant Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) makes this powerful
tool immediately accessible to both professionals and students. Following a general …

[图书][B] Printing on polymers: fundamentals and applications

J Izdebska-Podsiadły, S Thomas - 2015 - books.google.com
Printing on Polymers: Fundamentals and Applications is the first authoritative reference
covering the most important developments in the field of printing on polymers, their …

[HTML][HTML] Building a model based on scientific consensus for life cycle impact assessment of chemicals: the search for harmony and parsimony

MZ Hauschild, M Huijbregts, O Jolliet, M MacLeod… - 2008 - ACS Publications
Models used to assess the life cycle impacts of chemical emissions differ from each other in
their basic modeling principles, scopes, and outcomes. The differences are often hard to …

USEtox human exposure and toxicity factors for comparative assessment of toxic emissions in life cycle analysis: sensitivity to key chemical properties

RK Rosenbaum, MAJ Huijbregts… - … International Journal of …, 2011 - Springer
Purpose The aim of this paper is to provide science-based consensus and guidance for
health effects modelling in comparative assessments based on human exposure and …

Improving the production chain with LCA and eco-design: application to cosmetic packaging

D Civancik-Uslu, R Puig, S Voigt, D Walter… - Resources …, 2019 - Elsevier
One of the main drivers for companies to perform environmental improvements is economic
benefit, either by obtaining a more valuable product or gaining new customers. Circular …

Impacts of “metals” on human health: a comparison between nine different methodologies for Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA)

M Pizzol, P Christensen, J Schmidt… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper looks into the differences and uncertainties in determining the impact of “metals'”
emissions on human health, in Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA). Metals are diverse …

Toward harmonizing ecotoxicity characterization in life cycle impact assessment

P Fantke, N Aurisano, J Bare… - Environmental …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystem quality is an important area of protection in life cycle impact assessment (LCIA).
Chemical pollution has adverse impacts on ecosystems on a global scale. To improve …

A flexible matrix algebra framework for the multimedia multipathway modeling of emission to impacts

RK Rosenbaum, M Margni, O Jolliet - Environment international, 2007 - Elsevier
When assessing human health or ecosystem impacts of chemicals several calculation steps
need to be addressed. Matrix algebra solving techniques are a useful approach to structure …