Life-LCA: case study of the life cycle impacts of an infant.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The recently published first Life-LCA case study of a human being (0-49 years) did not use primary data for the "childhood and youth stage" (0-17 years). Consumption was assumed to contribute 50% of the calculated 48^th baseline year. This led to uncertainties as consumer behavior changes from birth to adulthood. Furthermore, transport emissions and environmental impacts before birth were neglected. Therefore, this paper analyzes the prenatal and infancy phase (0-3 years) to develop the Life-LCA method and database further and evaluate generic assumptions.

Methods

The Life-LCA method sets the reporting unit to newly defined prenatal and infancy phases. The reporting flow describes the range of all consumed products attributable to an infant. Primary data wa

SUBMITTER: Bossek D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9839953 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature