The Life Cycle Assessment, or LCA, is a measurement of a product's impact throughout its life cycle. While initially an energy analysis, this tool has evolved to cover the environmental and social ...

Product life cycle assessment is the process of monitoring the different phases of the life of a product from creation until it is disposed of or permanently taken out of commission and put into ...

The invisible lever behind these claims is a type of study, called a life-cycle assessment, or LCA. It is a method of analysis that has evolved over the past 60 years to give corporate strategists and ...

This is shown by Helena Nydahl, Department of Applied Physics and Electronics, in her thesis "Communication of Life Cycle Assessment Results—Life Cycle Key Performance Indicators," which will be ...

As companies try to reduce their carbon footprint, many are doing life cycle assessments to quantify the full carbon cost of products, from procurement of materials to energy use in manufacturing ...

How exactly is sustainability measured? One of the most common methodologies for quantifying sustainability is life cycle assessment (LCA). An LCA is a systematic analysis of environmental impact over ...