Life-Cycle Assessment: Inventory Guidelines and Principles

Life-Cycle Assessment presents a brief overview of the development of the life-cycle assessment process & develops guidelines & principles for implementation of a product life-cycle inventory analysis. The book describes inventory analysis, impact analysis, & improvement analysis-the three components of a product life-cycle assessment. It discusses the major stages in a life cycle, including raw materials acquisition, materials manufacture, final product fabrication, filling/packaging/distribution, & consumer use & disposal.