Talk:Life-cycle assessment

message: Merge. NMVOC is only a definition, and should be merged in, too. ENeville 16:16, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge NMVOC?

message: "While incineration produces more greenhouse gas emissions than landfilling, the waste plants are well-fitted with filters to minimize this negative impact."
I have yet to see a 'filter' that can capture CO2. Filters are used to capture soot, CO2 can be removed from flue gas through, for example, scrubbing, adsorption or membranes. Also, waste plants are as far as I know not included in the whole CCS story, only power plants are at the moment. Tristan Groot212.67.162.92 (talk) 08:47, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Energy Recovery 

message: I am proposing to merge Water-energy nexus into here. The current article is a tiny snapshot of west coast American thinking and is greatly biased and barely touches the surface of what it purports to represent. Very very far from a world view. It is also misleading and perhaps downright wrong - I just didn't have the will to live to check it all out.  Velella  Velella Talk   14:26, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge of [[Water-energy nexus]]

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thread_title: School Project

message: Reference #6 links to a missing page here: Life-cycle_assessment#Reference_test.
url=http://www.epa.gov/nrmrl/lcaccess/pdfs/chapter1_frontmatter_lca101.pdf
Mikk0384 (talk) 06:36, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing web page in references 

message: Perhaps some content related to Life Cycle Assessment Calculators could be added here: 
I found a few links fairly quickly just using Google: 
Google search was life cycle assessment calculator:
*http://www.lcacalculator.com/  -- company based in London -- (costs about $70 per month individual, or $3200 a month per small corporate team) 
*http://www.eiolca.net/  -- a project based at Carnegie Mellon University. 
*http://lca.jrc.ec.europa.eu/lcainfohub/datasetArea.vm -- a project from the European Commission.
::*I could list two other resources here: 
:::*Social Hotspots database: . Cost is $200 per year for companies, and $100 per year for academic and non-profit users. (they are offering a short course May 14 and May 15)
:::*openLCA -- Free and open source Life Cycle Assessment tool offered by GreenDelta.
::Jjjjjjjjjj (talk) 23:34, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: And -- it could include more than just the manufacture -- but also the other parts of the lifecycle -- from cradle to grave (or some variation or cradle-to-grave). Jjjjjjjjjj (talk) 00:37, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Life Cycle Assessment Calculators 

message: In a NYTimes web site comment section I raised the issue of life-cycle assessment, 
and social impacts in an article covering the 2013 Savar building collapse. 
I said that, "Life cycle assessment is focused on environmental impacts....". After taking a look at the lead of the Wikipedia article 
I didn't think social impacts were generally a part of life-cycle assessment. 
However, I happened to go back and watch some of 
Ecology, Ethics and Interdependence conference which took place in 2011, 
Greg Norris was speaking, and 
he spoke about measuring social impacts using the Social Hotspots Database. 
:"....and these are worker hours, and that brings me my fourth lesson when we purchase one product we are touching millions of people. On Earth, every day, we are touching millions of people with our purchases,  and this database helps us understand how well are they paid, how long are they working -- are they forced to work too long, and so on. So we can actually have a social footprint beside our environmental footprint....."
:http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=C73rUWE8Iz0#t=1885s 
Reading through the full article it doesn't speak much about social impacts (other than in critiques where it mentions something called the Agroecology tool) so I don't know to what extent that is analyzed within life-cycle assessment more broadly, or whether/how it should be covered in the article. 
It seems to me that there can be a fair amount of variety in working conditions within a particular country in an industry.
I recall reading this passage in a NYTimes article covering the garment industry in Bangladesh which was published in 2001:
:"Bangladesh's garment factories run the gamut. Some seem models of progressive management, with health clinics, day care centers and brightly lighted lunch rooms. Workers wear surgical masks to screen out fibers in the air, and shiny red fire extinguishers hug the walls at regular intervals. Other factories are bleak, stuffy places with cramped aisles that dead-end into haphazard knolls of fabric. Guards are stationed at locked gates, and fire prevention largely consists of empty red water pails." 
This seems consistent with what Saif Khan, who was a factory compliance supervisor for Phillips Van Heusen, said in Huffington Post:
:"The audits and inspections are too much focused on checklists," said Saif Khan, who worked for Phillips Van Heusen, the owner of brands Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein, in Bangladesh until 2011 as a factory compliance supervisor.
:"They touch on broader areas but do not consider the realities on the ground," he said.
Jjjjjjjjjj (talk) 23:11, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Life-Cycle Assessment and Social Impacts 

message: We are currently working on a project which aims at making Life Cycle Thinking assessible to both innovators, experts and consumers so that they can interact with each other and make informed decisions whenever they are to purchase a product whether you are a:
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#Small and medium enterprises (SME) scale business that have just entered research and development phase, if you are an academic researching an interesting issue within traceability - ethical and social, environmental assessment, consumer communication etc.
# Comsumer  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jakob Raffn WikiLCA (talk • contribs) 10:01, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiLCA - Demand is the answer! 

message: I cannot read the current image from Commons of the LCA summary. Unlike most images it gets smaller when I click on it and the green color is hard on my eyes. Could someone improve this? Thanks. Jim Derby (talk) 12:57, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current image summary of LCA 

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message: In the "Main ISO phases of LCA" section, in the "Goal and Scope" subsection, the second bullet, the functional unit, closed with this sentence:So to explain this a functional system which is inputs, processes and outputs contains a functional unit, that fulfills a function, for example paint is covering a wall, making a functional unit of 1m² covered for 10 years. The functional flow would be the items necessary for that function, so this would be a brush, tin of paint and the paint itself. 
Because I could make no sense of this, and because it lacks a citation to consult to make sense of it, I moved the sentence here, for clarification (or final interment). Cheers. 2601:246:C700:9B0:99AF:B5A5:917:EB75 (talk) 06:56, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sentence redacted for lack of clarity, Main ISO phases of LCA section 

message: This is the spelling used in ISO 14040, etc., and is the standard way of spelling it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erlend Kvitrud (talk) 07:45, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The title of this page should be changed to Life cycle assessment (no hyphen)