Anna Kounina

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed a multitude of methods and indicators for freshwater use potentially applicable in life cycle assessment and identified the key elements to build a scientific consensus for operational characterization methods for LCA.

TL;DR: Sala et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a midpoint-damage framework with four distinct complementary viewpoints to present an LCIA profile: (1) midpoint impacts, (2) damage impacts,(3) damages on human health, ecosystem quality, and resources & ecosystem service areas of protection, and (4) damaging on water and carbon areas of concerns.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that a sub-continental nested model such as USEtox, with continent-specific parameterization complemented with freshwater archetypes, can thus represent inter- and intra-continental spatial variations, whilst minimizing model complexity.

TL;DR: A framework for calculating characterization factors or comparative toxicity potentials (CTP) for nanoparticles and derive CTP values for TiO2 nanoparticles (TiO2-NP) for use in LCA is provided and results appeared plausible after benchmarking with CTPs for other nanoparticle and substances present in the USEtox database.