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<div class="csl-entry">Collado-Ruiz, D., & Ostad-Ahmad-Ghorabi, H. (2010). Comparing LCA results out of competing products: developing reference ranges from a product family approach. <i>Journal of Cleaner Production</i>, <i>18</i>(4), 355–364. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2009.11.003</div>
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0959-6526
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/165926
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has proven useful in comparing the environmental impact of alternatives, life-cycle phases or parts in a product. To date, benchmarking a new product with previous environmental information entails a degree of subjectivity. This paper presents LCP-families, a concept to develop reference ranges for environmental impact of a new product. A new product can be catalogued as environmentally better or worse than a percentage of its competitors, depending on what position it occupies in its LCP-family. Three case studies of packaging products are carried out to show the applicability and usefulness of the concepts presented.
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en
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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
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Journal of Cleaner Production
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Functional Unit
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General Environmental Science
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Innovation
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Ecodesign
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Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
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Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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Benchmarking
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Life Cycle
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Strategy and Management
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Comparing LCA results out of competing products: developing reference ranges from a product family approach
