How to Verify Your LCA Results
How do you know you can trust someone’s LCA results? Well, LCA is a scientific method. And, akin to peer review in science, when verifying an LCA, independent experts give their “approval stamp”. Here, you’ll learn about the different protocols for verification and how to get your LCA verified. Verification confirms: The LCA complies with […]
How to Interpret Your LCA Results
The third Phase of LCA gave you your LCA results. Great! You know the environmental footprint of your product! Now…what does it tell you exactly? The fourth (and last) Phase of LCA is about interpreting these results and gaining the environmental insights you need. So, let’s get into: The goal and process of LCA Interpretation […]
How to define the goal & scope of your LCA
In the Goal and Scope (LCA Phase 1) phase of making a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) you specify: what, why, how, and for whom your LCA is relevant. It’s a crucial phase in making LCAs, as it determines your outcome and how you interpret and check your results. That’s why you always return to this […]
The most used LCI Databases for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
LCI databases are crucial to making Life Cycle Assessments (LCA is the scientific method to measure the environmental footprints of products). LCI databases contain information on the average environmental footprint of most materials and processes used in our daily lives and national economies. They provide environmental data companies can’t or haven’t yet measured themselves yet. […]
End-of-life (EoL) in LCA: Impacts of Waste and Benefits of Recycling
The End-of-Life (EoL) is the 5th product life-cycle phase in LCA: it’s the “grave”. Frightful (at first sight) as its name implies, this phase causes emissions and frowning faces alike. It has two main challenges: 1. How do you find out what happens to your product after it’s discarded? 2. How do you account for […]
Cradle-to-Gate in LCA: What Is It and How Does It Work?
Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) following “Cradle-to-Gate” – measure a product’s environmental footprint up to the point where it leaves the factory gate. This means the environmental footprint results don’t include the footprint of product use by customers and its end-of-life processes (waste/recycling/upcycling). Cradle-to-gate simplifies and speeds up the LCA process. This is handy in certain […]
How to Use LCA for Credible Environmental Claims
Customers increasingly want sustainable products. Companies are therefore eager to “put on a green shirt” and market vague sustainability claims- but only some of them are actually changing their behavior. The only way for customers to check which companies are better for the environment is by looking behind the green facade: i.e. asking for environmental […]
Comparison of Top LCA Software: Your Ultimate Guide to LCA Solutions
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is the scientific method to measure the environmental footprint of products and services. Sustainability, climate change, the circular economy – they’re all becoming part of everyday business. As a result, the market for LCA tools develops quickly. Companies have an increasing need for LCA software. In this article, we highlight and […]
Key Learnings From 3 Sustainable Apparel Frontrunners
Sometimes, learning about sustainable apparel is like going to school again. And like in school, there are those straight-A students that blurt out the answers while you still try to understand the question. What answers do MUD jeans, Patagonia, and MATE the label frontrunners have regarding sustainable apparel? Fancy a peek at their homework? In this […]
Beginners Guide: 6 Steps to Create Sustainable Apparel
Extensive water use and- pollution, worker exploitation, microplastic, CO2 emissions… The apparel industry has faced increasing criticism over the past years. Fashion is getting a bad name and customers demand “sustainable” products. But making sustainable apparel products isn’t easy. What criticism should you focus on? What kind of impact do your products actually have on […]
