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Industry ecology and LCA(Life Cycle Assessment)
This document discusses environment management through industrial ecology and life cycle assessment. It defines industrial ecology as a systems-based, multidisciplinary approach that seeks to understand complex human/natural systems. The principles of industrial ecology include using natural systems as metaphors to improve industrial systems and reduce environmental impacts. Life cycle assessment is defined as the compilation and evaluation of inputs, outputs and potential environmental impacts of a product system throughout its life cycle. The document provides an example case study of a life cycle assessment and discusses the uses and benefits of industrial ecology and life cycle assessment.
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Overview of Environment Management, Industrial Ecology, and Life Cycle Assessment presented by Ranjit George.
Definitions, goals, principles, and examples of Industrial Ecology and its relationship with Life Cycle Assessment.
Discussion of multidisciplinary aspects of Industrial Ecology including materials, energy, economics, and natural sciences.
Focus on natural systems' recycling principles and applying them for industrial systems to lower environmental impact.
Comparison of biosphere and technosphere concepts highlighting natural and industrial processes and their equivalents.
The aims include sustainable resource use, preservation of health, equity, and minimal non-renewable resource use.
Environmental protection, cost savings, revenue generation, and achieving market leadership through sustainable practices.
Example of Seshasayee Paper and Boards using sugar mill waste for paper making and fostering local agriculture.
Definition of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and its role as a tool for evaluating environmental impacts and sustainability.
Overview of LCA phases: Goal & Scope, Life Cycle Inventory, Life Cycle Impact Assessment, and Interpretation.
Initiatives to minimize business environmental impacts focusing on product sustainability and business viability.
Describes ISO standards (14041, 14042, 14043) for conducting and interpreting LCA results and impacts.
Importance of interpretation phase in LCA for summarizing results, making conclusions, and recommendations.
LCA applications include identifying environmentally friendly products, research input, but no specific numerical data.
Different types of LCA include Cradle to Grave, Cradle to Gate, Gate to Gate, and Well to Wheel approaches.
LCA as a comprehensive tool for examining environmental impacts and guiding corporate decision-making process.
Summary of Industrial Ecology focusing on sustainable practices for health of ecosystems and future generations.
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Industry ecology and LCA(Life Cycle Assessment)
- 1. Environment Management Industry Ecologyand Life Cycle Assessment Presented by : Ranjit George 11 725
- 2. Flow Industrial Ecology Life Cycle Assessment What is Industrial Definition and Goals Ecology ? Process and Case Study Principles of Industrial Ecology? Impact Assessment Tools Goals and Benefits of Uses of LCA Industrial Ecology Variants of LCA Example of Industrial Ecology LCA benefit for Industry Ecology
- 3. Industrial Ecology Industrial Material Energy Systems Economics Engineering Sociology Toxicology Natural Sciences Systems-based, multidisciplinary discourse that seeks to understand emergent behaviour of complex integrated human/natural systems.
- 4. Principles Technological Society Systems Biosphere Natural Systems reuse materials and have a largely closed loop cycling of nutrients. Using similar principles, industrial systems can be improved to reduce their impact on the natural environment.
- 5. Principles - Metaphors Biosphere Technosphere Environment Market Organism Company Natural Product Industrial Product Natural Selection Competition Ecosystem Eco-Industrial Park Anabolism/ Catabolism Manufacturing/ Waste Management Mutation/ Selection Design for Environment Succession Economic growth Adaptation Innovation Food Web Product Life Cycle
- 6. Goals Sustainable development and use of resources at Global, Regional and Local level Preserving Ecological and Human Health Promotion of environmental equity(Inter societal) Minimal use of non renewable resources High degree of inter connectedness and integration that exists in nature
- 7. Benefits Protection to Environment Cost Saving Revenue Process Generation Market Leader
- 8. Case Study Seshasayee Paper and Boards Ltd (SPB), in Tamil Nadu. SPB started a paper mill, which went into commercial production in 1962. In order to ensure regular supply of raw material, a sugar mill was set up. The waste from the sugar mill (called bagasse) was used as a raw material for paper- making. Another waste from the sugar mill, molasses, was used in a distillery nearby for the production of ethyl alcohol. In order to ensure regular supply of sugarcane for the sugar mill, the company took interest in the cultivation of sugarcane by organizing the farmers in the region.
- 11. Definition and Goals "Compilation and evaluation of the inputs, outputs and the potential environmental impacts of a product system throughout its life cycle“ ISO 14040 Effects on environment of A decision making aid tool for products and processes implementing sustainable including packaging development
- 12. LCA Process: Phases of LCA GOAL & SCOPE LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY LIFE CYCLE IMPACT INTERPRETATION ASSESSMENT
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- 14. Products: Shrink to Fabric, Medium Stone wash type of jeans Purpose: To develop strategies to address the greatest impacts of business on the environment To addresses both environmental sustainability as well as sustainability of the business
- 15. Life Cycle Inventory: ISO 14041
- 16. Life Cycle AssessmentISO 14042
- 17. Life Cycle AssessmentISO 14042
- 18. Life Cycle AssessmentInterpretation ISO 14043 As per the results, the maximum environmental impact of the product is at the use stage i.e. at the hands of the consumer. Corrective measures: reduce the temperature of water and frequency of washes
- 19. Life Cycle AssessmentISO 14043
- 21. Role of Levi Partnership Care Labels Technology
- 22. Life Cycle ImpactAssessment Evaluation of the significance of potential environmental impacts based on the LCI flow results Stages : Classification Characterisation
- 23. Life Cycle AssessmentInterpretation Systematic technique to identify, quantify, check, and evaluate information Results from the inventory analysis and impact assessment are summarized during the interpretation phase Outcome of the interpretation phase is a set of conclusions and recommendations for the study
- 24. USES Identify Design Environmentally Determination friendly products Research and Input to product and process Development design Labeling Education
- 25. LCA Variants Cradle to Grave Cradle to Gate Cradle to Gate to Gate Cradle Well to Wheel
- 26. LCA Benefit toIndustrial Ecology Only tool that examines the environmental impacts of a product or service throughout its life cycle ISO standardized method Comprehensive overview of a product or service Guides Company’s Decision Making
- 27. Conclusion Industrial Ecologyis the study of how we humans can continue rearranging Earth, but in such a way as to protect our own health, the health of natural ecosystems, and the health of future generations ofplants and animals and humans. It encompasses manufacturing, agriculture, energy production, and transportation