Oleoscience
Online ISSN : 2187-3461
Print ISSN : 1345-8949
ISSN-L : 1345-8949
Sustainable Lifestyle and LCA
Case Study of the Home Laundry by the Use of Social/Dynamic LCA
Yoko YAMAGUCHIMasuzo NAGAYAMA
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2009 Volume 9 Issue 6 Pages 257-262

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In recent years, life cycle assessment (LCA) as a new method for evaluating environmental load for the sustainable consumption has attracted attention. LCA is a tool that can be used to evaluate the environmental effects of a product, process, or services. On the other hand, life cycle product assessment (ISO-LCA) has in the past only been used to assess a systems environmental performance. So, we consider the application of Social/Dynamic LCA as part of a comprehensive study of consumer behavior and economic considerations related to home laundry instead of typical environmental life cycle product assessments. As a result, it become clear that the amount of CO2 emission during the usage was much larger than that of CO2 emission during the production process, that the analytical tool of detergents was used as a same scale, city water and electricity consumed during the use of the washing machine combine with washing behavior of the consumer.
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