Evaluate the environmental impacts of a product with a Life Cycle Assessment

LCA is the tool or method used to evaluate the environmental impacts of a product across all stages of its life cycle.

How can LCA’s benefit business?

LCA’s can include all the stages of your products’ lifecycles including:

• Materials and manufacturing (A1- A3)
• Distribution and installation (A4 – A5)
• Use stage and whole life cycle (B1 – B7)
• End of life (C-D)
• An LCA assessment might be the first time you’ve ever done a cradle-to-gate or cradle-to-grave look at your products or services.

Position your business

Armed with clear data produced by the LCA – quite apart from wider environmental benefits – your business is in a better position to de-risk processes, find efficiencies, reduce costs, improve your product and strengthen your relationships with stakeholders.

Find opportunities

It’s so much more than a compliance exercise — this deep dive can identify opportunities that can help transform your business for future resilience.

For companies who want to share the results of their Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), producing an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is the gold – and global – standard.

How can an LCA create added value?

Think of an LCA as a detailed and insightful analysis on the entire lifecycle of your products. In an era of big data, the value of knowing more can yield many benefits including:

• Identify and minimise risks
• Increase your market share
• Manufacture a better product sustainably
• Strengthen your networks and relationships
• Discover new efficiencies
• Reduce costs
• Enhance your brand with customers

What factors does an LCA consider?

An LCA measures information about the impacts of processes and products on the environment. These include:

• Carbon emitted
• Energy used
• Emissions impact