Life Cycle Assessment of products and services

LCA of products and services

The leading approach for a more sustainable product line

Do you seek to assess, improve or communicate the environmental performance of your products or services?

Life cycle assessment provides the framework to evaluate all types of environmental impacts at all life cycle stages. It is the most reliable and accepted way to measure the total environmental impacts of a product or service throughout its life cycle, from cradle (extraction of raw materials) to grave (disposal).

Impact assessment methods make it easy to communicate complex results. The LCA framework can be applied to any type of product service or other system. International standards (ISO 14040 and 14044) defines an accepted and flexible framework that can be applied to any type of product, service, or other system. The United Nation Program for the Environment (UNEP) actively promotes LCA.

LCA provides:

A complete view of the environmental impacts
The most advanced method for evaluating the impacts of a product, service or an organization
An indispensible tool for supporting decisions and communications

IT allows you to:

Inform decision makers from the industry and government on the best strategies and priorities for environmental performance
Give key information for marketing, for example to create labels, communicate on environmental benefits or establish environmental product declaration
Access new green markets, by redesigning products and providing key environmental information

LCA: The Centerpiece of Your Sustainability Strategy

LCA is the key to:

Understand your products' impacts
Improve and measure performance
Communicate results to: shareholders, clients, employees, interest groups, retailers / distributors, supply chain / value chain, government, market and more
Stimulate product design innovation
Support marketing / brand image
Benchmark against competitors
Be proactive and in the lead

A Study Custom-Tailored to Suit your Needs

We provide a wide range of LCA options to fit all types of products, services or other complex systems. Study requirements can vary depending on whether the purpose is to provide internal information, support critical decisions or support external communications.

Each of our studies is targeted to meet the unique needs of our clients.

Our team of LC analysts has a wide variety of experience in many industrial sectors, including