Life-Cycle Thinking Flashcards
What are the 5 steps of life-cycle thinking?
Extraction of Raw Materials, Design and Production, Packaging and Distribution, Use and Maintenance, Disposal
What is the “input” during life cycle assessment?
Natural Resources
What are the 3 Rs of disposal? What does each one mean?
Recovery (recover raw materials to repeat process), Recycle (recycle for direct redesign and production), Reuse (reuse the product in correct form, no reproduction)
What is systems thinking?
Consideration of how a product of the life cycle interacts with other elements, forming a system
Sustainability is a property of ____
The entire system.
To find a sustainable solution, we must look at _____
The entire system.
Sustainability is about the well-being of _____ and _____
the ecosystem and human well-being
Can we seek tradeoffs between human and environmental well-being?
No. We must consider sustainability for each aspect.
