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Understanding Life Cycle Impacts and Communication Tools in LCA

Learn about basic life cycle impacts, differentiate phenomena and tools in LCA, understand uncertainty factors, low sulphite marketing case studies, and the removal of sodium benzoate from Diet Coke. Explore ISO 14001, ecological footprint, carbon footprint, and renewable resources. Gain insights into corporate and social responsibility, environmental product declarations, and impact evaluations.

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Understanding Life Cycle Impacts and Communication Tools in LCA

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  1. Learning objectives • Students can list the basic life cycle impacts • Students differentiate the phenomena and the communication tool in LCA • Students are aware of the basic uncertainty factors in LCA

  2. Product Life CycleImpacts

  3. Marketing Low sulphite trial Case of 6 Formaldehyde-Free Wood Products Sodium benzoate removed from Diet Coke - By Laura Crowley, 27-May-2008 Coca-Cola is phasing out the use of the controversial additive sodium benzoate in Diet Coke on the back of consumer demand for more natural products.

  4. Voluntaryguidancetools ISO 14001

  5. Ecological footprint Land use LCA Carbon footprint Energy depletion Climate change MIPS Ozone layer Renewable resources Non renewable resources Acidification Health impacts Eutro-phication Water depletion Ecotoxicity Water footprint Social impacts Bio-diversity Environmentalimpacts– communicationtools Mattila, T. (SYKE), 2010

  6. Corporate social responsibility Social responsibility ISO 14001, OHSAS, Eco labels, Environmentalproductdeclarations, greenmarketingterms, instructions on purchasing and R&D, regulatoryrequirements, GRI, DJSI, CDP, RC Substanceclassifications, footpronts, criteriacompounds Evaluation on impacts(models, tests) Impacson environment, health and resources E.Kähkönen, 2012 Supporting Sustainability

  7. But we, in so far as we have power over the world and over one another, we must learn to do what the leaf and the whale and the wind do of their own nature. We must learn to keep the balance. - Ged, The farthest shore by U. LeGuin

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