Stephan Krinke

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: In this paper, the authors present the results of a European Commission funded project (LIRECAR) that aims at identifying the environmental impacts and relevance for combinations of recycling / recovery and lightweight vehicle design options over the whole life cycle of a vehicle - i.e. manufacturing, use and recycling/recovery.

TL;DR: This study analyzes water consumption and the resulting impacts of Volkswagen's car models Polo, Golf, and Passat and represents the first application of impact-oriented water footprint methods on complex industrial products.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed an approach to reduce the workload of collecting and processing the relevant data in an LCA study of complex systems by automating these process steps, which also offers advantages in terms of LCA quality.