Environmental sustainability based on the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

The broader awareness of the sustainable development issues causes more and more attention to be given to the environmental impacts of products through the different phases of their life cycle such as manufacturing, distribution, use and, when appropriate, to the fate after use.Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been recognized as a valuable tool to investigate the environmental performance of products as well as processes and services. In particular LCA has also been gaining attention as a method to compare and quantify the environmental impacts of similar products.