Lca As a Tool For Environmental Management - ”A C

Table of Contents
Table of Contents 2
List of Figures 4
List of Tables 5
List of Abbreviations 6
1 INTRODUCTION 7 1.1 Phases of Life Cycle Analysis 1.2 LCA Application
2 PHASES OF LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS 7
2.1 GOAL AND SCOPE DEFINITION 8 2.2 LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY ANALYSIS 9
2.3 LIFE CYCLE IMPACT ASSESSMENT 2.3.1 Mandatory and Optional Steps ISO 14040 2.3.2 Insight into the process of Classification and Characterization
2.3.3 The Process of Obtaining Indicator Results 2.3.4 Assessment Methods 2.3.4.1 ReCiPe Methodology 2.3.4.2 Ecological Scarcity Method 2006
2.4. INTERPRETATION
3 THE CASE STUDY 17
3.1 Scenerio investigation 18 3.2 Functional Unit 20
3.3 System Bondaries 21 3.4 LIFE CYCLE IMPACT ASSESSMENT 3.4.1 Result of the production of a cup of tea without preparation: Ecological Scarcity Method 3.4.2 Results of a cup of tea with regard to the ecological scarcity 2006 method (eco-points per 250ml of tea) 3.4.3 Results of a cup of tea with regard to the global Warming Potential 3.4.4 Results of the Comparison between a Cup of Tea And a Cup of Coffee with Regard to the Ecological Scarcity 2006 Method
3.4.5 Global Warming Potential - Comparison of a cup of black tea and a cup of black coffee
3.5 RECOMMENDATIONS MADE BY THE RESEARCHERS
4. CONCLUSIONS Bibliography 30

List of Figures
Figure 1: Cost Benefit Graph 18
Figure 2: Factors Affecting Sample Size selection 20
Figure 3:Information Management Model 23

List of Tables
Table 1:List of Research Methods Techniques 7
Table 2:Comparison Between Research Methods 11
Table 3: Milk's Survey Cost Estimation (First Option) 19
Table 4: Online Survey Cost Estimation ………………..19

List of Graphs
Graph 1: Result of the production of a cup of tea without preparation: