Research Starters
Research Starters table
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- Life-cycle assessment.
- The term “life-cycle assessment” (LCA) is applied to a whole family of environmental assessment tools. The driving force behind the first LCA was an environmental debate about waste and packaging in the United States during the late 1960’s. The first LCAs compared the resource consumption and emissions of beverage cans, plastic bottles, and refillable glass bottles. During the global oil crises of 1973 and 1979 the focus of LCAs shifted to the analysis of different petroleum substitutes. With growing environmental awareness LCA became an attractive methodology for product-oriented environmental policies in several countries....
- Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2023. 2p.
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