LCA/SLCA

Question 1

What does LCA stand for?

Answer 1

Life Cycle Assessment

Question 2

What does SLCA stand for?

Answer 2

Streamlined Life Cycle Assessment

Question 3

What do both LCAs and SLCAs do?

Answer 3

Analyze the impacts of a product or process over its life cycle

Question 4

The common LCA consists of __pages and ___ pages of requirements

Answer 4

46 pages; 26 pages of requirements

Question 5

What are the 4 stages of an LCA?

Answer 5

1. Goal Definition + Scope
2. Inventory Analysis
3. Impact Assessment
4. Interpretation

Question 6

Is an LCA quantative or qualittaive?

Answer 6

Quantitative

Question 7

What are 4 key challenges with LCAs?

Answer 7

1. Can only be used late in the design process, after key decisions have been made
2. Only focuses on environmental impacts
3. Time consuming
4. Requires detailed understanding of material, energy flows and impacts, which must be quantified

Question 8

What are 4 reasons SLCA is better than LCA?

Answer 8

1. Requires less time
2. Can guide the decision-making process
3. Qualitative –> good for difficult-to-quantify things
   Less expensive

Question 9

What is an Environmentally Responsible Product Rating (Rerp)?

Answer 9

Sum of all ratings, which are compared to get the final solution