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Measuring Product Material Footprint as New Life Cycle Impact Assessment Method: Indicators and Abiotic Characterization Factors

dc.date.accessioned2019-05-22T06:05:27Z
dc.date.available2019-05-22T06:05:27Z
dc.date.issued2019-04-02
dc.identifierdoi:10.17170/kobra-20190521521
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/11247
dc.description.sponsorshipGefördert durch den Publikationsfonds der Universität Kassel
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsUrheberrechtlich geschützt
dc.rights.urihttps://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/
dc.subjectproduct material footprinteng
dc.subjectnew life cycle impact assessment methodeng
dc.subjectabiotic materialseng
dc.subjectraw material inputeng
dc.subjecttotal material requirementeng
dc.subjectcharacterization factorseng
dc.subject.ddc620
dc.titleMeasuring Product Material Footprint as New Life Cycle Impact Assessment Method: Indicators and Abiotic Characterization Factorseng
dc.typeAufsatz
dcterms.abstractThe 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.eng
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
dcterms.creatorMostert, Clemens
dcterms.creatorBringezu, Stefan
dc.relation.doidoi:10.3390/resources8020061
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dcterms.source.identifierISSN: 2079-9276
dcterms.source.issue2
dcterms.source.journalResources
dcterms.source.pageinfo61
dcterms.source.volume8


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