A life-cycle assessment (LCA), also called a life-cycle analysis, is a powerful tool that allows businesses to understand the environmental impact of a product, service or process—from cradle to grave. In other words, It evaluates key environmental aspects, such as energy consumption, resource depletion, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across stages of your operations. Notably, from raw material extraction to transformation, distribution, usage and disposal.
For example, a Canadian packaging company conducts a life-cycle assessment of its cardboard boxes, tracking carbon emissions from tree harvesting, pulp processing, manufacturing, shipping, customer use, and end-of-life recycling — using the findings to identify that manufacturing is the largest emissions stage and target it for efficiency improvements.
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