Life Cycle Assessment

What is the ecobalance of a product?  Products themselves do not pollute: it is the factories that made them, the trucks that transported them, the user who uses them and the incinerator that burns them. 

You need life cycle thinking to understand how products impact on the environment. If you want to be more precise, you need life cycle assessment (LCA) to quantify and balance the impacts of products.

LCA is often criticised as being complex and time consuming. We think it does not need to be. It is a scalable concept: you can choose how detailed and precise you want to be. You can go from a full, ISO compatible, peer reviewed study to a screening that takes only a few days. An important factor is how much of the data you need is already available in the database of your LCA tool.