Product Life Cycle Assessment
The product life cycle assessment (LCA) refers to the assessment of potential environmental impacts caused by the investments in and outputs of raw material acquisition, manufacturing, delivery and sales, use, and waste processing and recycling stages of products and services. Corporations can use LCA to assess all the impacts on the environment created by products “from cradle to grave”, such as contributions to global warming and damage to the ozone. The assessment results can be applied to products, manufacturing and services to achieve the purpose of continuously providing environmentally friendly products and reducing energy and resource usage during product manufacturing.
