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Introduction
To date Life Cycle Assessment (German: “Ökobilanz”) is a method
defined by standards ISO EN 14040 and 14044 to analyse environmental
aspects and impact of product systems. Introduction of the method in
chapters 2 to 5 therefore relates to these standards. As preliminaries, scope
and development of the method are introduced in this chapter.
1.1
What is meant by Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)?
1.1.1
Definition and Limitations
According to our knowledge, the German term Ökobilanz, in the sense of
“ecological balance” or later named life cycle assessment, (LCA), was
initially used in a study by the Environmental Confederation Agency of
Switzerland1. This study had a great influence on the issue, especially in
German speaking countries and from here results the colloquial expression
which is more adequately termed Life Cycle Assessment in English.
In the introductory part of International Standard ISO 140402 serving as
framework, LCA is defined as follows:
“A life cycle assessment (LCA, also known as life cycle analysis,
ecobalance) is a technique for an product related estimation of
environmental aspects and impact … LCA assesses each and every impact
associated with all stages of a process from cradle-to-grave (i.e., from raw
materials through materials processing, manufacture, distribution, use,
repair, maintenance, and disposal or recycling.”
A similar definition of LCA had been adopted as early as 1993 by the
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)3 in its
“Code of Practice”4.
1German: Schweitzer Bundesamt für Umweltschutz; BUS, 1984
2ISO 1997
3 Foundation year 1979
4 SETAC 1993
Similar definitions can be found in basic guidelines of DIN-NAGUS5 as
well as in the “Nordic Guidelines”6 commissioned by Scandinavian
Ministers of the Environment.
Those deliberate limitations of an LCA to analysis and valuation of
environmental impacts has as consequence that the method is restricted
to only quantify7 one, an ecological, aspect of persistence (see Chapter 6).
The exclusion of economical and social factors separates LCA from
product line analysis (PLA) and similar methods8. This separation was
made to avoid a method overload being aware of the fact that with a
development of persistent products these factors cannot and must not be
neglected9.
1.1.2
Life Cycle of a Product
The main idea of an analysis cradle-to-grave or life cycle is illustrated,
simplified, in Fig 1.1. Starting point for building a product tree is the
production of an end product plus the phase of operation. Further
diversification of the boxes in Fig. 1.1 into singular processes, so called
process units as well as the inclusion of transports, diverse energy supply,
by-products, etc. turn this simplistic scheme even with simple products
into very complex “product trees” (diverse raw material and energy
supply, interim products, by-products, waste management including
diverse disposal types or recycling).
<<Fig.1.1>>
Fig. 1.1 Simplified life cycle of an (industrial) product
Interconnected process units (life cycle of product tree) form a system. At
the centre will be a product, a process, a service or human activity 10- in
the widest sense. In an LCA, systems serving a specific function and
which therefore have a benefit will be analysed.
Therefore the benefit of a system will be the actual factor of
comparison for a comparison of products. It is regarded as the sole
5 DIN-Normenausschuss Grundlagen des Umweltschutzes (NAGUS), Germany, 1994
6 Lindfors et al. 1995
7 Klöpffer 2003, 2008
8 Projektgruppe Ökologische Wirtschaft 1987; O‘Brien et al. 1996
9 Klöpffer 2008
10 SETAC 1993
correct basis for the definition of a “functional unit”11.
1.1.3
Functional Unit
Besides an analysis cradle-to-grave that is thinking in systems, life cycles
or production trees, the functional unit is the other basic term in an LCA
and should therefore already be explained here:
The benefit of a beverage packing is besides a shielding of the liquid
above all transportability and storability. A functional unit will most
frequently be defined as an eligibility of 1000 L liquid in a way to obtain a
technical supply of benefit. This function can for instance be mapped as
follows with packing specifications arbitrarily chosen:
- 5000 0.2 L12 sachets
- 2000 0.5 L reusable bottles of glass
- 1000 1 L single-use beverage cardboard
- 500 2 L PET single-use bottles
Thus, for a comparison of packing systems, the life cycle of 500 barrels,
2000 bottles, 1000 cardboards and 500 2 L PET bottles needs to be
analysed and compared, or four systems serving roughly the same benefit.
Slight variations of benefit (convenience, e.g. weight, customer
orientation, aesthetics, performance, advertising and other commercially
exploitable side effects) do not have to interfere in the simplistic example.
It is important to note that systems (not products) with similar benefit are
compared13. By this it is also possible to compare industrial products
(goods) with services, as long as they have a same or very similar benefit.
Within a LCA, products are defined as goods and services. As with
products, services require energy, transport, etc. Therefore it is possible to
define services as systems and to compare them with industrial product
systems on the basis of equivalent benefit by means of the functional unit.
1.1.4
LCA as System Analysis
11 Fleischer and Schmidt 1996
12 1L = 2.1 PT
13 Boustead 1996
Differently put, a LCA is based on a simplified system analysis.
Simplification consists of extensive linearisation (see system boundary and
cut-off criteria in Section 2.2). Interconnections of parts of the life cycle of
a product which always exist in reality, lead to extremely complex
relationships in the modelling. There are nevertheless possibilities to
handle the formation of loops and other deviations from linear structure
e.g. by an iterative approach or matrices calculus14.
Example
LCA deals with a comparison of product systems not products. What is
meant by this?
Within the product segment towel dispenser, paper towels and fabric
caster are distinguished. The fabric needs to be cleaned to fulfil its
function. This means, the cleansing process (detergent, water and energy
consumption) is part of the product system and must surely be
considered. Washing machines must be applied for cleaning.
Does the production of washing machines also have to be considered?
They are made of steel which is assembled of ore which needs to be
produced etc. Limitations are therefore necessary. On the other hand
nothing essential may be omitted.
System analysis and the selection of system boundaries are therefore
important tasks within a LCA.
The main advantage of this approach lies in its abilities to easily detect
deferrals of environmental loads, so called trade-offs, which for example
occur within substitutions: it is of no use if environmental loads are
seemingly eliminated if, later on or at different places, in different life
cycles or environmental media additional problems will occur, or if an
unrelated entry or resource consumption is involved.
It is not arguable that in rare cases especially in health threatening
circumstances (e.g. substitution of hazardous substances) decisions
categorized as suboptimal must be made.
Example
As fossil resources diminish, substitution of raw material by renewable
14 Heijungs 1997; Heijungs and Suh 2002
resources is an objective of science and development.
By LCA, variants of loose-fill packing substances such as polystryol and
potato starch15 have e.g. been examined As production processes of both
material fundamentally differ, a thorough analysis is necessary. For
instance, the overall agricultural system including growth, maintenance,
and harvest needs to be considered during the production of raw material,
in the other case the raw oil production. Other life cycles of loose-fill
packings differ depending on type of raw material. It cannot be decided
at first sight whether substitution on the basis of raw material will have
an ecological advantage or not.
1.1.5
LCA and Operational Life Cycle Assessment
There is always a risk of problem shift if spatial boundaries and those of
time have been over restrictive. This is often the case, if only operational
life cycle assessments (misguidedly termed ecobalance of the enterprise or
ecobalance without supplementary explanation) have been conducted. If
for instance the system boundary is set equal to site of the enterprise, an
adjustment to the fundamental concept of LCA is not made: Neither the
production of deliveries nor their disposal is considered. Transports,
outsourcing and parts of waste removal will not be accounted.
Example
Pseudo Improvement by Outsourcing
The manufacturer of fine foods had intended not only to advertise his
products based on taste and salubriousness but also by environmental
aspects. For this, data concerning energy and water consumption was
procured in an operational life cycle assessment to allow an allocation of
the salad composition. Potato salad had an immense water supply, the
reason being that potatoes were usually covered by earth and had to be
cleaned. The waste water was then assigned to the potato salad. Some
weeks later water supply per salad had drastically diminished. This was
not due to an innovation on the cleansing gadget but because the washing
had been outsourced to another enterprise. For this reason washing water
did not occur in the operational life cycle assessment
15 Bifa/IFEU/Flo-Pak 2002
Nevertheless operational life cycle assessment may for many applications
be useful, for example as data base in an environmental management
system16.
A simple consideration shows that operational life cycle assessments
provide data bases for product life cycle assessment: every process for the
production of e.g. 500 g potato salad in screwed cap glasses takes place at
a specific place at a specific time. If data, e.g. for energy and water
consumption of the system “1000 screw cap glasses, each containing 500g
potato salad, cucumber, egg and yoghurt dressing” has to be procured,
every company that is part of production and transport of the packed
product as well as businesses for waste disposal, must have their processes
analysed in such a way that these could be allocated to the original
product. This is not trivial: an agricultural corporation, generally does not
only produce milk, dairies not only yoghurt, the manufacturer of glass
manufactures provides glasses for diverse customers, etc. If all entities
involved in the manufacture of the product already disposed of a LCA
containing product related data, these results could be merged. Product
related data acquisition is nevertheless not common practice in operational
life cycle assessments.
Coupling of such operational life cycle assessments along the life cycle of
products would provide the possibility of chaining of agents17. Agents that
are part of a product system could detect and realize a common potential
for optimization. A new state of mind inclined to thinking and, by far,
acting in life cycles (Life Cycle Thinking and Life Cycles Management –
LCM) may emerge.
1.2
History
1.2.1
Early LCAs
Life Cycle Assessment is a recent technology but not as recent as many
believe. There are approaches to life cycle thinking in literature. Scottish
economist and biologist Patrick Geddes has as early as in the 80s of 19th
century developed a procedure which can serve as precursor for LCA18.
16 Braunschweig and Müller-Wenk 1993; Beck 1993; Schaltegger 1996
17 Udo de Haes and De Snoo 1996, 1997
18 Quoted by Suter et al. 1995
His interest was focused on energy supply, especially of coal.
First LCAs in the modern sense were conducted around the 1970s termed
“Resource and Environmental Pacific Analysis (REPA)” at Midwest
Research Institute in the USA19. As with nearly all early LCAs or “proto-
LCs”20 these were an analysis of resource consumption and releases of
product systems, so called inventories without impact assessment. To date
such studies are mostly called life inventory-LCA studies21. The new
comparative method was first applied for a comparison of beverage
packing. The same applies for the first LCA conducted in Germany22. The
latter was done under an administration of B. Oberbacher in 1972 at the
Battelle-Institute in Frankfurt. The method developed by Franklin and
Hunt was applied with an additional procurement of costs, among others
those of disposal. It is interesting to observe that light polyethylene sachets
now and later on obtained best results23.
Similar early LCAs were conducted by Ian Boustead in the UK24 and
Gustav Sundström in Sweden25. Also Swiss studies26 date back to the
1970s. They were conducted at the EMPA in St. Gallen, see memories of
Paul Fink, former director of the EMPA27.
1.2.2
Environmental Background
Why did the development of LCA start in the 1970s? At least two reasons
can be determined:
1. Rising problems of waste (therefore studies on packing)
2. Short-cuts in energy supply, acknowledgement of limited resources
While the former issue was introduced into a just emerging politics of the
environment, public awareness for the latter was raised by the bestseller
“Limits to Growth” and the report to the Club of Rome28. Something must
have been in the air because the book caused a sensation in the year of its
19 Hunt and Franklin 1996
20 Klöpffer 2006
21 ISO 1997
22 Oberbacher et al. 1996
23 Schmitz et al. 1995
24 Boustead 1996
25 Lundholm and Sundström 1985, 1986
26 BUS 1984
27 Fink 1997
28 Meadows et al: 1972, 1973
publication 1972. To date one refers to a change of paradigm taking place:
throw away mentality of post war generation was suddenly under scrutiny.
Theory was confirmed by reality by the first oil crises in 1973. Estimations
in the study concerning the time for exhaustion of resources had been too
rigid, in this respect it was over-pessimistic, it however demonstrates the
vulnerability of an industrial society which to a great extend relies on
crude oil. To date, nothing has changed, on the contrary.
System analysis, well known by specialists for some time since, has had its
breakthrough as a commonly accepted method. The International Institute
for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) at Laxenburg, Vienna, was
founded. In Germany, there have been car-free Sundays to which everyone
adhered, and a spirit of optimism, to date unimaginable, a plethora of ideas
on how alternative as well as common resources of energy could be used
more efficiently. Some of them were realized, but most of them not (yet).
1.2.3
Energy Analysis
On this background it is not surprising that initially an energy analysis or
process chain analysis theoretically evolved as an important contribution
to life cycle analysis29 (see Chapter 3). In Germany this development was
mainly promoted by Professor Schäfer at Technical University in
Munich30 but also in industry31. A (primary) energy demand summarized
through all steps of the life cycle was formerly named “equivalent energy
value”. Recently the expression cumulated energy demand (CED)32
prevails.
By way of political solutions to the oil crisis in the 1980s an interest in
LCA and its precursors declined to experience a totally unexpected upraise
at the end of the decade.
1.2.4
The 1980s
Studies on LCA were sparse in the first half of the 1980s. An exception
form the study of BUS, later Federal Agency for Environment, Forestry
29 Mauch and Schäfer 1996
30 Mauch and Schäfer 1996; Eyrer 1996
31 Kindler and Nikles 1978, 1979
32 VDI 1997
and Agriculture, Bern33, which has already been named, a thesis by
Marina Franke at TU Berlin34 and the development of product line
analysis (PLA) by the Ökoinstitut35. PLA supersedes LCA as it includes
an analysis on demand (DA), social (SA) and economical aspects (EA):
PLA = BA + LCA + SA + EA
It therefore comprises all three concepts of sustainability according to the
Brundlandt-Commission36 (see Chapter 6) and Agenda 2137 which passed
legislation at UNO World Conference in Rio de Janeiro, 1992.
1.2.5
The SETAC38 Contribution
A strong upraise of interest in LCA in Europe and North America -where
the designation life cycle analysis and assessment originated- was met by
two international conferences as a starting point for a new development.
In 1990 a workshop was organized by Society of Environmental
Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) in Smugglers Notch39 on A
Technical Framework for Life Cycle Assessment. One month later a
European workshop took place on the same topic in Leuven39.
In Smugglers Notch a famous LCA triangle was conceptualized, later
persiflaged as “holy triangle” (Fig.1.2). From 1990 to 1993 SETAC and
SETAC Europe were leading agents in the development, harmonization
and standardization of LCA. Their reports40 concerning the development
of the methodology were only superseded by German “Ecobalance of
Packings 1990”41, updated in 1996 and 199842. The UBA study in 1992
also had great influence43. A French adoption of history and methodology,
“L'Ecobilan”, was published44.
Special contributions from the Centre of Environment of University
Leiden (CML) under the leadership of Professor Helias de Haes were
33 BUS 1984
34 Franke 1984
35 Projektgruppe Ökologische Wirtschaft 1987
36 World Commission on Environment and Development 1987
37 Agenda 21: UNO 1982
38 Klöpffer 2006
39 Leuven 1990
40 SETAC 1991, 1993; SETAC Europe 1992; Fava et al. 1993,1994
41 BUWAL 1991
42 BUWAL 1996, 1998
43 UBA 1992
44 Blouet and Rivoire 1995
appreciated in a socio-economic study by Gabathuler45 and in a special
issue of the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment46. Greatest
achievement of CML was without doubt a stronger focus on ecological
aspects of LCA compared to previously more technical ones. Nevertheless,
a prior Swiss LCA had already featured a simple method of impact
analysis47. In practice, the CML method tended to overstress chemical
releases in the impact analysis, at the same time due to an absence of
generally adhered indicators an overuse of natural resources such as
minerals, fossils, biology and land was shielded48 (see Chapter 4).
1.3
Structure of LCA
1.3.1
Structure according to SETAC
A first attempt to introduce a structure into LCA was the SETAC triangle
of 1990/91 already quoted.
<<Fig. 1.2>>
Fig. 1.2 The SETAC-triangle in LCA guidelines (“Code of Practice”)49
The original components of SETAC 1990/91 were adapted by the UBA50
Berlin in 1992 as
- LCA, Inventory
- Impact Analysis
- Improvement Analysis
Here LCA, formerly called inventory, means material and energy analysis
of the examined system from cradle-to-grave. The resulting inventory
table contains a list of all inputs and outputs (see Fig. 1.3 and Chapter 3).
“Bare numbers” of LCA need an ecological analysis or weighting, inputs
and outputs will be sorted corresponding to their impact to the
45 Gabathuler 1998
46 Huijbregts et al. 2006
47 BUS 1984
48 Klöpffer and Renner 2003
49 SETAC 1993
50 UBA 1992
environment. Thus for instance all releases into the air causing acid rain
will be aggregated (see chapter 4). This procedure was formerly called
Impact Analysis, later Impact Assessment.
<<Fig. 1.3>>
Fig. 1.3 Analysis of matter and energy of a product system
A valuation of the data procured in LCA was postulated in Smugglers
Notch. It was called Improvement Analysis, later renamed Improvement
Assessment. Introduction of this component was regarded as great
progress, because the interpretation of the data was conducted according to
specific rules. The Environmental Agency Berlin51 has included this task
in its recommendation to the conduct of LCAs in 1992 as an option. The
rules for interpretation were later modified during the standardization
process of ISO (see section 1.3.2). To date this component is known by
valuation52 (see Fig. 1.4).
1.3.2
Structure of LCA according to ISO
Up to now the structure developed by SETAC has essentially been
maintained by ISO53 with the exception of Improvement Assessment which
was replaced by “interpretation” (valuation). An optimization of product
systems was not adapted as standard content by ISO, but was listed besides
other applications of the standard. The structure of the international
standard is depicted in Fig. 1.4.
<<Fig. 1.4>>
Fig. 1.4 LCA Phases according to ISO EN 14040:1997/2006
Tab. 1.1 Examples of LCA applications according to ISO 140.
Application Query Project
environmental packing regulation beverage packing54
51 German: Umwelbundesamt (UBA)
52 ISO 1997
53 ISO 1997, 2006a
law and - politics waste oil regulation waste oil disposal55
genetically modified
organisms (GMO) GMO in agricultural LCA56
agriculture weed control in viticulture57
PVC PVC in Sweden58
public procurement comparison of cost and benefit of
environmental procurement59
integration of
product politics EuP guideline60
comparison of
product
tenside ECOSOL LCAs61
beverage packing comparison of packings62
food packing comparison of packings63
floor coverings ERFMI survey64
isolation materials insulation of buildings65
communication consumer consultation ISO type III declaration66
chain management PCR67: electricity, steam,
water68
ecological building EPD69: building products70
carbon footprinting PCR: climatic product
declaration71
54 Schmitz et al. 1995; UBA 2000, 2002
55 UBA 2000a
56 Klöpffer et al. 1999
57 IFEU/SLFA 1998
58 Tukker et al. 1996
59 Rüdenauer et al. 2007
60 Kemma et al. 2005
61 Stalmans et al. 1995; Janzen 1995
62 IFEU 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007
63 IFEU 2006a; Humbert et al. 2008
64 Günther and Lambowski 1997, 1998
65 Schmidt et al. 2004
66 Schmincke and Grahl 2006
67 Product Category Rules
68 Vattenfall et al. 2007
69 Environmental Product Declaration
70 Deutsches Institut für Bauen und Umwelt 2007
71 Svenska Miljösttyrningsrådet 2006; BSI 2008
carbon-neutral enterprise72
waste
management
concepts of disposal graphic papers73
recycling plastics74
enterprise ecological valuation of
business lines
environmental achievement of an
enterprise75
Components of LCA have been renamed and the following are now
mandatory in Germany:
- Definition of Goal and Scope
- Life Cycle Inventory
- Impact Assessment
- Valuation
The arrows in Fig 1.4 allow an iterative approach that is often necessary
(see Chapter 2). Direct applications of an LCA lie out of scope of
standardized components of an LCA.
This makes sense because besides foreseeable applications during the
standardization process, others exist in real life and have been summarized
as “miscellaneous applications”. Examples can be found in Table 1.1.
1.3.3
Valuation – A Separate Component?
Special fate is attached to the component valuation which has not been
assigned as standard. A valuation will always be necessary if the results of
a comparative LCA are not straightforward. A trade-off of system A
against system B needs to be made if the former has lower energy
consumption, but on the other hand has releases of substances leading to
water eutrophication and to the emergence of ozone near the surface: What
will be of greater importance? For these decisions, subjective or standard
notions of value are necessary, common in daily life e.g. during purchase
decisions76. For this reason a valuation based on exclusively scientific
methods cannot be made.
72 Gensch 2008
73 Tiedemann 2000
74 Heye and Kremer 1999
75 Wright et al. 1997
76 DIN-NAGUS 1994; Giegrich et al. 1995; Klöpffer and Volkwein 1995; Neitzel 1996
Because of this, it was proposed by SETAC Europe at Leiden 199177 to
introduce valuation as a component of its own. This proposition was
seized by UBA Berlin78 and by DIN NAGUS79 later on. But as subjective
notions of value cannot be standardized, a methodology was developed to
support the process of conclusion. In SETAC “Code of Practice”80 these
regulations were subordinated to the component impact assessment.
However, no changes were made by the standardization process of ISO:
regulations are integrated into the component impact assessment81 (see
section 4.3). The final survey of results which leads to a conclusion82 is
supposed to take place in the final component “valuation“83 of an LCA
(see Chapter 5).
The discussion on valuation has during the final years of the 1990s
increased to such an extent that former Minister of the Environment
Angela Merkel84 joined the discussion. As consequence, the association of
the German Industry (BDI) published a policy brief85 and the UBA Berlin
then elaborated an ISO-conformal valuation methodology86.
1.4
Standardization of LCA
1.4.1
Process of Formation
LCA standards ISO 14040 and 14044 belong to the ISO 14000 group
concerning environmental management (Fig. 1.5).
The committee responsible of DIN in Germany is the NAGUS87. National
propositions are brought together in the Technical Committee 207 (TC
207) at the International Standards Organization ISO at international level,
with a participation of all nations which are members of the TC 207 by
their standardizations organizations, and international standards are
developed. Generally this process takes a couple of years.
77 SETAC Europe 1992
78 UBA 1994
79 DIN NAGUS 1994; Neitzel 1996
80 SETAC 1993
81 ISO 2000a
82 Grahl and Schmincke 1996
83 ISO 2000b
84 Merkel 1997
85 BDI 1999
86 SCHMITZ AND PAULINI 1999
87 Normenausschuss Grundlagen des Umweltschutzes i.e. Environmental Standardisation Organisation
LCA standardization by national standardization organizations88 and
above all by ISO has been conducted since the beginning of the 1990s with
great effort89. This was difficult to achieve because individual components
of LCA were still under development. On a national level, only two
standardization organizations have developed their own LCA
standardization before ratification of ISO 14040: AFNOR (France) and
CSA (Canada). To date, a singular internationally acceptable
standardization is aimed at to promote international communication and
this is why France and Canada have stepped into the ISO process.
<<Fig. 1.5>>
Fig. 1.5 ISO 14000 Model90
The most important standardization activity for LCA is therefore
conducted by ISO. European Standardizations (CEN) and their subsequent
national organizations adapt ISO regulations into languages (CEN 14040
standards are available in three official languages, English, French and
German). DIN-NAGUS and similar national committees activity is
focused on legwork for the ISO council, the work-out and harmonization
of supplementary comments, a translation of ISO texts and on
supplementary standardization for specifically German or national issues.
The first series of the international LCA standards abutted on the structure
of Fig 1.4:
- ISO 14040 LCA – Principles and general demands; international standard
1997
- ISO 14041: LCA – Definition of goal and scope as well as LCI;
international standard 1998
- ISO 14042: LCA – Impact assessment; international standard 2000;
- ISO 14043: LCA – Valuation; international standard 2000.
1.4.2
Status Quo
A review of International Standards in 2001-2006 led to restructuring
without any essential changes91. The standard continues to be called ISO
88 e.g.: CSA 1992; DIN-NAGUS 1994; AFNOR 1994
89 ISO 1997, 1998, 2000A, 2000B; MARSMANN 1997; SAUR 1997; KLÜPPEL 1997, 2002
90 Normenausschuss Grundlagen des Umweltschutzes (NAGUS) in DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V. 2008.
91 Finkbeiner et al. 2006
1404092 with no mandatory directives. Directives have been summarised
in a new standard ISO 1404493 comprising all LCA elements in Fig.1.4.
Two technical reports (TR) and one technical specification has been
added, which are only available in English:
- ISO/TR 14047 Illustrative example on how to apply ISO 140042
- ISO/TS 14048 Data documentation format
- ISO/TR 14049 Examples of the application of ISO 14041 to goal and
scope definition and inventory analysis
These are non-mandatory documents meant for help and support.
As many as 24 national standardization organizations participated in a first
round of ISO standardization talks. The final vote led to an overall
acceptance of 95%. LCA is therefore the only internationally accepted
standardized method for an analysis of environmental aspects and
potential impact of product systems. The standards are verified on a five
year basis. Revision of 2006 will therefore be valid until 2011.
Chapter 5 will focus on objective content of individual components of
LCA, their advantages and disadvantages.
1.5
Literature and Information on LCA
Until the mid of the 1990s only “gray” LCA literature was available.
Meanwhile, a couple of books mostly in English have been published94.
Papers from national and international organizations provide essential
information to LCA, mostly SETAC and SETAC Europe95, The Nordic
Council96, US EPA97, UBA Berlin98, BUS/BUWAL Bern99 and the
European Environment Agency Copenhagen (EEA)100.
Since 1996 “The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment” (Int. J.
LCA) is published at ecomed publishing Landsberg/Lech and Heidelberg
92 ISO 2006A
93 ISO 2006B
94 Schmidt and Schorb 1995; Curran 1996; Eyrer 1996; Fullana and Puig 1997; Wenzel et al. 1997; Hauschild and
Wenzel 1998; Badino and Baldo 1998; Guinée et al. 2002; Baumann and Tillman 2004
95 SETAC 1991, 1993; SETAC Europe 1992; Fava et al. 1993, 1994; Huppes and Schneider 1994;
UDO DE HAES 1996; UDO DE HAES ET AL. 2002
96 Lindfors et al. 1994,1994b, 1995
97 EPA 1993, 2006
98 UBA 1992, 1997; Klöpffer and Renner 1995; Schmitz and Paulini 1999
99 BUS 1984; BUWAL 1990, 1991, 1996, 1998
100 Jensen et al. 1997
(since 1.1.2008 at Springer, Heidelberg). Queries on current information
on this journal and similar publications can be made by the internet101. The
journal has recently developed into a leading publication organ of the
promotion of the LCA methodology, supplemented by the series “LCA
Documents” of Ecoinforma Press, (since 2008 part of Wiley-Blackwell),
Bayreuth, in cooperation with ecomed. The Int. J. LCA is also available
electronically and short cuts, editorials and similar publications can be
downloaded. Further journals with regular contributions to LCA are the
Journal of Industrial Ecology (MIT Press, part of Wiley-Blackwell since
2008), Cleaner Production (Elsevier) and Integrated Environmental
Assessment and Management, IEAM (SETAC Press).
Other specialized journals also publish LCA literature. In 1995 for
instance, an ECOSOL-Tenside-LCA of the European tenside producers
was conducted by Franklin Associates, comprising two booklets, titled
“Tenside, Surfactants, and Detergents”102.
The significance of publication for propagation and discussion of methods,
theories and results of research cannot be over-evaluated. Especially
within new branches of science, peer reviews judge on a day-to-day basis
upon scientific validity103. They serve as veneer for the big principles of
epistemology with special focus according to Popper on falsifiability104
which for LCA cannot be examined unambiguously. Individual LCA
components will undergo a critical review.
1.6
References ((NICHT übersetzt))
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30–300. 3/1994.
Badino und Baldo 1998: Badino, V.; Baldo, G. L.: LCA – Istruzioni per l’uso. Progetto Leonardo,
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