Life cycle assessments (LCA) are one tool OEMs, fabricators and suppliers can use to understand – and improve – the environmental impact of composite parts and materials. Examples shown include an LCA ...

One example, the U.S. Life Cycle Inventory (USLCI) Database, provides "individual gate-to-gate, cradle-to-gate, and cradle-to-grave accounting of the energy and material flows into and out of the ...

A life cycle assessment allows a company to determine the environmental impact of a product. For example, a product that is manufactured using dangerous chemicals may require expensive disposal ...

By the late 1990s and early 2000s, scientific journals, like the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, were created and a peer review process established. And since 1994, the ISO, a ...

The life cycle above reflects a linear model of production, also known as a cradle-to-grave life cycle. An LCA can also account for other models of life cycles, such as cradle-to-cradle. This ...

Examples of greenwashing, according to a March 2022 analysis by mechanical engineers Grant Faber and Volker Sick of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor include labeling plastic garbage bags as ...

The life cycle above reflects a linear model of production, also known as a cradle-to-grave life cycle. An LCA can also account for other models of life cycles, such as cradle-to-cradle. This ...

Technical University of Denmark. "Life cycle assessment of carbon capture." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 9 November 2021. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 11 / 211109120312.htm>.

In the study undertaken by the NCC, it was found that the carbon footprint of a glass fiber composite output from one LCA software tool could be almost double for the same assessment used in another.