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Life cycle assessment part 2: current impact assessment practice
Authors:Pennington D W  Potting J  Finnveden G  Lindeijer E  Jolliet O  Rydberg T  Rebitzer G
Institution:Soil and Waste Unit, Institute of Environment and Sustainability, T.P. 460, Directorate General Joint Research Centre (DG-JRC), European Commission, Ispra (Va), 21020, Italy. david.pennington@jrc.it
Abstract:Providing our society with goods and services contributes to a wide range of environmental impacts. Waste generation, emissions and the consumption of resources occur at many stages in a product's life cycle-from raw material extraction, energy acquisition, production and manufacturing, use, reuse, recycling, through to ultimate disposal. These all contribute to impacts such as climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, photooxidant formation (smog), eutrophication, acidification, toxicological stress on human health and ecosystems, the depletion of resources and noise-among others. The need exists to address these product-related contributions more holistically and in an integrated manner, providing complimentary insights to those of regulatory/process-oriented methodologies. A previous article (Part 1, Rebitzer et al., 2004) outlined how to define and model a product's life cycle in current practice, as well as the methods and tools that are available for compiling the associated waste, emissions and resource consumption data into a life cycle inventory. This article highlights how practitioners and researchers from many domains have come together to provide indicators for the different impacts attributable to products in the life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) phase of life cycle assessment (LCA).
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