Journal
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
Volume 18, Issue 4, Pages 355-364Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2009.11.003
Keywords
Benchmarking; Innovation; Ecodesign; Functional unit; Life cycle
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has proven useful in comparing the environmental impact of alternatives, life-cycle phases or parts in a product. To date, benchmarking a new product with previous environmental information entails a degree of subjectivity. This paper presents LCP-families, a concept to develop reference ranges for environmental impact of a new product. A new product can be catalogued as environmentally better or worse than a percentage of its competitors, depending on what position it occupies in its LCP-family. Three case studies of packaging products are carried out to show the applicability and usefulness of the concepts presented. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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