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Life-Cycle Assessment (Lca) Creates New Possibilities For Entrepreneurs To Influence The Environmental Impact, Mariann Holmberg, M.Sc., Hely Westerholm, Ph.D.
Life-Cycle Assessment (Lca) Creates New Possibilities For Entrepreneurs To Influence The Environmental Impact, Mariann Holmberg, M.Sc., Hely Westerholm, Ph.D.
International Journal for Business Education
This paper discusses the Life-cycle Assessment (LCA) and its possibilities for entrepreneurs to influence environmental impact.
LCA is a technique to assess environmental impacts associated with all the stages of a product’s entire life from cradle to grave, i.e., from raw material extraction through materials processing, manufacture, distribution, use, repair and maintenance, and disposal or recycling. LCA can help to analyze and compare the environmental impact of products or services via an inventory of energy and material inputs and emissions at all stages. LCAs focus on environmental impacts and originally do not consider social or economic impacts.
The first case …