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Tools for environment’s web application for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
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2011
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Shaker Verlag
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LCA is becoming more and more important over the last few years. In France, the application of law said Grenelle II in 2010 set, amongst others, the obligation for all distributors to display the environmental performance of all ‘business to consumer’ products which can be communicated by environmental labelling. This requirement comes directly from the Ecodesign directive and its application leans on the LCA method. The French movement is a precursory of ecolabel which is now being developed at European level. The downside of the widespread use of LCA could be a lack of human and financial resources. Actually, LCA needs well educated people with good experience working on highly capable but complex software. One way to resolve the increasing demand on LCA is to make it achievable by non-experts working on uncomplicated software. The benefit of this way is to increase the number of people who can model a product or a service and calculate its environmental impacts. A solution to get LCA achievable by non-experts is a tool which combines quality and the simplicity. This tool is a tailor-made software for specific application field. It leans on three mainstays : a Product Category Rules (PCR), a sector specific database and a calculator implemented in a web application. This method guaranties the quality and representativeness of the LCA even performed by an inexperienced user. The web application gives a holistic environmental view of the product or service, the detail of the environmental impact by process and can be used to compare several scenarios. Since the end of April, the web application also integrates uncertainty analysis.