Blockchain technology applications in waste management: Overview, challenges and opportunities

P Jiang, L Zhang, S You, Y Van Fan, RR Tan… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Rapid population growth and urbanisation have accelerated waste generation, and effective
waste management has become a major challenge worldwide. With advances in technology …

Life cycle assessment under uncertainty: a scoping review

Z Barahmand, MS Eikeland - World, 2022 - mdpi.com
Today, life cycle assessment (LCA) is the most widely used approach to model and calculate
the environmental impacts of products and processes. The results of LCAs are often said to …

[HTML][HTML] Coupling big data and life cycle assessment: A review, recommendations, and prospects

J Li, Y Tian, K Xie - Ecological Indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a method that focuses on measuring indicators and making
decisions in the environmental dimension. However, its isolation from economic, social, and …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting product life cycle environmental impacts with machine learning: Uncertainties and implications for future reporting requirements

J Baehr, A Koyamparambath, E Dos Reis… - Sustainable Production …, 2024 - Elsevier
With the introduction of the European Green Deal, companies must increasingly report the
environmental impacts of their products using life cycle assessment methodology. Since the …

Automation of life cycle assessment—A critical review of developments in the field of life cycle inventory analysis

B Köck, A Friedl, S Serna Loaiza, W Wukovits… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
The collection of reliable data is an important and time-consuming part of the life cycle
inventory (LCI) phase. Automation of individual steps can help to obtain a higher volume of …

A method to create weighted-average life cycle impact assessment results for construction products, and enable filtering throughout the design process

E Marsh, L Hattam, S Allen - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2025 - Elsevier
The built environment contributes around 37% of global energy and process-related
greenhouse gas emissions and requires significant decarbonisation to reach global net-zero …

Are electric vehicles really the optimal option for the transportation sector in China to approach pollution reduction and carbon neutrality goals?

C Deng, Y Qian, X Song, M Xie, H Duan, P Shen… - Journal of environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Profound worldwide fleet electrification is thought to be the primary route for achieving the
target of carbon neutrality. However, when and how electrification can help mitigate …

Advances and perspectives on the life-cycle impact assessment of personal protective equipment in the post-COVID-19 pandemic

F Zeng, D Liu, C Xiao, K Li, X Qian, Y He… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic initiated an unprecedented
surge in production and consumption of personal protective equipment (PPE). There is still …

[HTML][HTML] An approach to regionalise the life cycle inventories of Spanish agriculture: Monitoring the environmental impacts of orange and tomato crops

N Sinisterra-Solís, N Sanjuán, J Ribal, V Estruch… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Agricultural life cycle assessment (LCA) at the sub-national regional level may be a valuable
input for the decision-makers. Obtaining representative and sufficient data to develop life …

LCA of wood waste management systems: Guiding proposal for the standardization of studies based on a critical review

GCS Pinho, JL Calmon - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
In environmental management, there are many opportunities to improve wood waste (WW)
management practices. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), according to ISO 14040, is a tool used …