Aufsatz
Measuring Product Material Footprint as New Life Cycle Impact Assessment Method: Indicators and Abiotic Characterization Factors
Zusammenfassung
The global economy is using growing amounts of natural resources such as raw materials, water, and land by making and using goods, services, and infrastructure. Aspirations on international, regional, and national levels e.g., the Sustainable Development Goals, the EU flagship initiative Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe or the German Program for Resource Efficiency are showing an urgent need to bring the global raw material use down to sustainable levels. An essential prerequisite to identify resource efficient options and to implement resource efficiency measures and solutions is the ability to compare different products or services regarding their raw material use. Until today, there is no internationally standardized approach defined and no software supported calculation method including the necessary data basis available to measure the raw material intensity of products. A new life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) method Product Material Footprint PMF is described. Two indicators are used to quantify the PMF: the Raw Material Input RMI and the Total Material Requirement TMR. The calculation of global median values for the characterization factors CFRMI and CFTMR of abiotic materials was done based on different databases. This article presents the methodological approach of the PMF, the calculation results for CFRMI of 42 abiotic materials and CFTMR of 36 abiotic materials, and the implementation of the LCIA method into the software openLCA for use with the ecoinvent database.
Zitierform
In: Resources 8 / 2 (2019-04-02) , S. 61 ; ISSN: 2079-9276Förderhinweis
Gefördert durch den Publikationsfonds der Universität KasselZitieren
@article{doi:10.17170/kobra-20190521521,
author={Mostert, Clemens and Bringezu, Stefan},
title={Measuring Product Material Footprint as New Life Cycle Impact Assessment Method: Indicators and Abiotic Characterization Factors},
journal={Resources},
year={2019}
}
0500 Oax 0501 Text $btxt$2rdacontent 0502 Computermedien $bc$2rdacarrier 1100 2019$n2019 1500 1/eng 2050 ##0##http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/11247 3000 Mostert, Clemens 3010 Bringezu, Stefan 4000 Measuring Product Material Footprint as New Life Cycle Impact Assessment Method: Indicators and Abiotic Characterization Factors / Mostert, Clemens 4030 4060 Online-Ressource 4085 ##0##=u http://nbn-resolving.de/http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/11247=x R 4204 \$dAufsatz 4170 7136 ##0##http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/11247
2019-05-22T06:05:27Z 2019-05-22T06:05:27Z 2019-04-02 doi:10.17170/kobra-20190521521 http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/11247 Gefördert durch den Publikationsfonds der Universität Kassel eng Urheberrechtlich geschützt https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ product material footprint new life cycle impact assessment method abiotic materials raw material input total material requirement characterization factors 620 Measuring Product Material Footprint as New Life Cycle Impact Assessment Method: Indicators and Abiotic Characterization Factors Aufsatz The global economy is using growing amounts of natural resources such as raw materials, water, and land by making and using goods, services, and infrastructure. Aspirations on international, regional, and national levels e.g., the Sustainable Development Goals, the EU flagship initiative Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe or the German Program for Resource Efficiency are showing an urgent need to bring the global raw material use down to sustainable levels. An essential prerequisite to identify resource efficient options and to implement resource efficiency measures and solutions is the ability to compare different products or services regarding their raw material use. Until today, there is no internationally standardized approach defined and no software supported calculation method including the necessary data basis available to measure the raw material intensity of products. A new life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) method Product Material Footprint PMF is described. Two indicators are used to quantify the PMF: the Raw Material Input RMI and the Total Material Requirement TMR. The calculation of global median values for the characterization factors CFRMI and CFTMR of abiotic materials was done based on different databases. This article presents the methodological approach of the PMF, the calculation results for CFRMI of 42 abiotic materials and CFTMR of 36 abiotic materials, and the implementation of the LCIA method into the software openLCA for use with the ecoinvent database. open access Mostert, Clemens Bringezu, Stefan doi:10.3390/resources8020061 publishedVersion ISSN: 2079-9276 2 Resources 61 8
Die folgenden Lizenzbestimmungen sind mit dieser Ressource verbunden:
:Urheberrechtlich geschützt
Verwandte Dokumente
Anzeige der Dokumente mit ähnlichem Titel, Autor, Urheber und Thema.
-
BuchUltra-High Performance Concrete and High Performance Building Materials for Sustainability Construction Fehling, Ekkehard; Middendorf, Bernhard; Thiemicke, Jenny (kassel university pressKassel, 2024)