Clare Broadbent

TL;DR: Over the last two decades, LCA methodology and related data have become a suitable and professional approach to address the environmental sustainability of human activities.

TL;DR: The steel industry has developed a methodology to show the benefits of using recycled steel to make new products as mentioned in this paper, which is in accordance with ISO 14040/44:2006 and considers the environmental burden of using steel scrap and the benefit of scrap recycling from end-of-life products.

TL;DR: In early February, 48 participants from 23 countries gathered in Shonan Village, southeast of Tokyo, for a Pellston workshop to develop global guidance on principles to create, manage, and disseminate datasets through databases for the purpose of supporting life cycle assessments of globally produced products and services.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore and develop policy options for integrating life cycle assessment (LCA) into legislation and show that theoretically a broad range of policy options exists, and practically some of them are already implemented in real world legislation and that there is no clear scientific overall preference for one single option.