LCAS

Question 1

What does LCA stand for ?

Answer 1

Life cycle assesments

Question 2

What is LCA

Answer 2

It is an attempt to put a number on the enviromental impacts of a product

Question 3

Stages of LCA production

add outputs too

Answer 3

Extracting raw materials - huge amount of energy reuqried
Manufacture - eneergy needed to transport product
Production
Use / reuse
recylce / waste management - energy needed to transport products .

Question 4

Examples of outputs of LCAS

Answer 4

energy disspiated to the surroudnign
atmospheric emissions
waterbone wastes

Question 5

Plastic or paper bag ? (6 marks)

Answer 5

see notesfor answer

Question 6

Whats wrong with LCAS ?

Answer 6

Caannot always measutr how damaging this are to the enironment so have to make estimates / valued judgement not always accurate .
LCAS can be biased - to support their claims by advertisers
They only highligh the enivronmental impacts of a product not its cost or perfomrance levels .

Question 7

Why should LCAS be coarried out on new products ?

Answer 7

to assess the environmental impact of the products, process or services.