Journal
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
Volume 19, Issue 11, Pages 1189-1197Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2011.03.007
Keywords
Life cycle assessment; Collaboration; Data collection; Eco-design; Supply chain
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- Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan
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Collaborative activities with business partners have potential to improve environmental performance of product and life cycle assessment (LCA) is an essential technique to implement eco-design of product and production process. However, collection of LCA data from supply chain is a major issue for LCA practitioners. We propose a Supply Chain Collaboration Model (SCCM), which is a framework for collecting producer-specific LCA data from business partners and for promoting improvement activity of product environmental performance. We demonstrate the practicability of the SCCM using three case studies. In each case study, two or three partner companies organized a product improvement project and carried out process analysis techniques such as LCA and material flow cost accounting (MFCA). As a result, improvement activities from the economical standpoint could provide an incentive for business partners to collect LCA data, and thus the SCCM is an effective framework for eco-design. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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