Product Life Cycle Assessment to Reduce Health Risks and Envi... - 9780815513544

Product Life Cycle Assessment to Reduce Health Risks and Environmental ImpactsAuthor(s): Gregory A. Keoleian\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: William Andrew Publishing, United States\nImprint: William Andrew Publishing\nISBN-13: 9780815513544, 978-0815513544\nSynopsis\nLife cycle design is a proactive approach for integrating pollution prevention and resource conservation strategies into the development of more ecologically and economically sustainable product systems. Cross media pollutant transfer and the shifting of other impacts can be avoided by addressing the entire life cycle, which includes raw materials acquisition, materials processing, manufacturing and assembly, use and service, retirement, disposal and the ultimate fate of [url] goal of life cycle design is to minimize aggregate risks and impacts over this life cycle. This goal can only be attained through the balancing of environmental, performance, cost, cultural, legal, and technical requirements of the product system. C.