The term ‘land use’ is traditionally used to denote a classification of human activities which occupy land area. In the field of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), the terms ‘land use’ or ‘land use impact’ have been used to ...

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The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology is used to evaluate environmental impacts by grouping the negative effects upon the environment of a given product or process into a reduced set of impact categories. Global ...

The most important project finance are being shaped through the financial sector’s demand of a strict fulfilment of the required environmental standards, due to its commitment to the Equator Principles. No other measure ...

The objective of this work is to carry out a "from cradle-to-gate" environmental evaluation of ceramic tiles, with the aim of identifying the steps/processes/materials mainly contributing to its environmental impact. Production ...

The Directive 2000/53/EC on End-of Life Vehicles lays down measures to reduce the disposal of waste, as well as the improvement of the environmental performance of operators, the Authorized Treatment Facilities, involving ...

Last 7th December, the Spanish Ministerio de la Presidencia established by mean of the Real Decreto 1.620/2007, the new legal regime for the reusability of polished waters. The required quality parameters according to the ...

The environmental pollution is one of the problems associated with the energy life cycle: generation, use and degradation. In the way to sustainability, one of the challenges in productive systems is the efficiency and ...

The stage of the Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) in the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) methodology, implies the data acquisition and the calculation procedures to quantify the inputs and outputs of a system. This is the most time ...

This paper is a methodological design generated from the contamination problem in the installation of hydraulic systems. Detail aspects for the present problem have been considered focusing on those associated with every ...