All the standard sort of things you would do for financial cost, quality, sustainability, really just one extension of that. We talked about how you could use those internally, doing things like trying to evaluate different departments in your organization, tracking your performance, setting up some kind of internal metrics. Within the boundary is essentially drawn around your organization. Last time when we were talking about carbon footprinting, we were talking really about things that go on at the corporate level. First is to lay understand the steps in the LCA, exactly what is the methodology, how it's used, the specific steps in it and what they mean, what goes into each of them.īut really, what we're also going to spend time on is understanding the decisions that go into that, using the hand dryer study as an example to go through and understand how you link all these different steps together, what it means in understanding the decisions that you have to make as a person doing this or as a company, in terms of setting the boundary, understanding what your goal is, and all the uncertainty that goes along with all the decisions and assumptions that you have to make along the way. Today we're going to go through life cycle assessment, and talk about that and how we use it to quantify environmental impacts of products. So still have to stay on our best behavior, I guess.
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