Weighting of impacts is frequently applied to enable the prioritization of life cycle
assessment (LCA) results for the support of decision making. Most Distance-to-Target (DtT) …

A 5-scale label that relativizes the environmental impact of a given product referred to the
impact of the European food basket is proposed. It was developed based on the Product …

European institutions have recently introduced new environmental policies relevant to the
plastics sector. This could accelerate the transition to alternative materials. However, this …

Life cycle assessment and machine learning were combined to find the best option for
Tehran's waste management for future pandemics. The ReCipe results showed the waste's …

Few studies in the literature integrate rainwater harvesting and firefighting. Thus, the general
objective of this paper was to evaluate the potential use of rainwater as a source of water for …

Purpose This work investigates the use of alternative approaches to normalization in life
cycle assessment (LCA) and shows the relevance of the normalization step in the …

Current structural design methods mostly emphasize the short-term structural behavior while
neglect the long-term performance, social effects and environmental impacts. To address …

Due to the profound impact that building sector has on the environment and consequently
the sustainability of our society, the evaluation of environmental impacts through life cycle …

Designing sustainable processes is gaining momentum in the chemical engineering
community. Conventional life cycle assessment approaches often employed to assess the …

Life cycle assessment is a multidisciplinary framework usually deployed to appraise the
sustainability of various product or service supply-chains. Over recent decades, its use in the …