Environmental assessment of products

This two volume work presents a decision making tool which enables manufacturers and scientists to undertake life cycle assessment (LCA) of new products from the design and development stages.

The methodology allows the environmental consequences of a product to be assessed in the same way as traditional commercial parameters such as price and quality.

Significantly, it is in accordance with international consensus, as defined by SETAC (Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) and ISO (International Organization for Standardization).

Moreover, the methodology has made the individual steps operational by creating a method data basis for the assessment.

The books are derived from the Environmental Design of Industrial Products (EDIP) programme organized by the Technical University of Denmark and five Danish companies.

The project was sponsored by the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Confederation of Danish Industries. This book should be of interest to universities, technical universities and business schools and colleges; authorities and agencies; industrial companies; environmental departments and staff dealing with environmental issues; consultants within the field of cleaner technology and environmental assessment and design of industrial products.