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Applications of

Life Cycle Assessment

Ritesh Agrawal, Principal Consultant

thinkstep India

GreenCo Summit 2018, Chennai, 27-29 June 2018

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Content

• Key Trends of LCA

• Applications of LCA

• GaBi LCA Software

• Q&A

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The 4 fundamentals of Life-Cycle Sustainability….

Applied LC

Sustainability

Methods

Standards

Compliance schemes

Knowhow Team

Network Support

Business Cases

Software

Data(bases)

Foreground Data

40%

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Customer Demand

Product Carbon Footprint

Hot spot Identification and Weak point Analysis

Principle 2 of BRR

GRI G4/ CDP Scope 3/ DJSI

Green Buildings and LEED.v4: EPDs

Natural Capital Accounting

Resource and Energy Efficiency

Product Stewardship

Sustainable Apparel Coalition

Design for Environment and Material Choice

Green Procurement

Packaging Innovation

Circular Economy and Service Life Extension

ISO 14001- 2015

Social Life Cycle Assessment

Drivers and Applications of LCA

LCA Practitioners- India

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Natural Capital Accounting (NCA)

LCA mid-point

impacts

Climate change

Acidification

Eutrophication

Ozone creation

potential

Human toxicity

Eco-toxicity

Water

consumption

etc

Results in

physical terms

Results in

monetary terms

Reflects the damage impacting

society and human well-being,

expressed in monetary terms

Thinkstep has a partnership with TRUCOST regarding NCA

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Environmental Product Declaration (EPD)

• It is an independently verified and registered document that communicates

transparent and comparable information about the life-cycle environmental

impact of products.

• Having an EPD® for a product does not imply that the declared product is

environmentally superior to alternatives

• It is simply a transparent declaration of the life-cycle environmental impact.

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Number of regulations

EuPREACH

RRR

Korea RoHS

Conflict Minerals

EU RoHS

ELVJapan RoHS

China RoHS

California RoHS

JIG

GADSL

Packaging

EU Medical Device Directive

Product Compliance

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• The average weight of one red box is

approximately 0.238 kg.

• The corrugated material makes up 90

weight-% and the paper 10 weight-% of the

box

• To prevent damage during

transportation, a standard outer carton

which holds 10 boxes

• It consists of a non woven

polypropylene bag and corrugated

“bone” providing stability to the design

• weight of the bag is approximately 0.02

kg. The same corrugated material as for

the current design weighs 0.082 kg

90% Customers requested for an outer polybag in Red Shoe Box whereas only

20% in case of Clever Little Bag

PUMA Shoe: Packaging Innovation-

Clever Little Bag

Everybody is talking about embedding sustainability; but truly embedding is in

your product

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Full Product Transparency Cutting the Fluff out of Sustainability

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Steel replacement by Advanced High Strength Steel (AHSS)

Source: World Steel: A case for Life Cycle Assessment

Light Duty Truck Vehicle, May 2014

72.06

70.53

68.97

67

68

69

70

71

72

73

Base Case Aluminium AHSS

Global Warming Potential (t CO2 eq)

4.25% GHG

reduction

Light Weighting: Mahindra

DESIGN FOR ENVIRONMENTCommitment for environment conscious design and reducing Toxicity

Components of DfE Policy:

▪ Increase use of recycled & renewable material

▪ Evaluation of raw material to improve recyclability

and biodegradability

▪ Evaluation of water and energy pattern

▪ Reduce use of chemicals of concerns

▪ Design consideration to reduce environmental

impact at end of life

Design for Environment: Godrej Interio

EPD: ACC Limited

“Regional hub" to the International EPD system in India region

Source: Saint Gobain Planilux 2mm Glass EPD

EPD: Saint Gobain

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Design for x

(compliance,

recycling, etc.)

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GaBi databases: Historical development

The facts behind it:

Largest LCA team worldwide > 170 experts

High continuity, key people > 15 years in the group

Continuously developed since 20 years

2.100+ data available to public

10.000+ datasets commercially available...

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Databases

Industrial data

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& data from more than 25

material associations

& hundreds of EPDs

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About thinkstep

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Ritesh Agrawal

Phone: +91 22 4266 7693

Mobile: +91 99671 06584

Ritesh.Agrawal@thinkstep.com

“It is time to recognise that nature is the largest company on earth

working for the benefit of 100% of humankind – and it’s doing it for

free”

International Union for Conservation of Nature, 2009