This intake form is designed to be general, evocative, and comprehensive. Each section contains prompts presented as questions, and you may find it impossible or unnecessary to answer every question depending on your organization, your current knowledge, and on the goal of your LCA – Life Cycle Assessments tool.
Answer as many questions as you feel are relevant to meet your needs. Feel free to skip any sections or details that don’t apply to the goal or scope of your study, or to combine answers across sections depending on your documentation.
Where applicable, provide as many sources and as much evidence as possible to help substantiate your answers. This will aid our experts in providing a more accurate representation of your product or process.
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Example Information for the Life Cycle Assessments Tool
Please refer to the hammer example below and see what type of details we are looking for.
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The frame represents our boundary in the product system. In this example, the process under review is the assembly of the hammer. We are including the finished head, the finished handle, and the assembly process. We are also including the chemicals needed to assemble the hammer. Everything else is excluded or de-emphasized.
The frame represents a different boundary in the product system. In this example, the inputs to the system are the finished head, the finished handle, and the chemicals (adhesives) used to assemble the hammer before packaging. Not shown: electricity, water, etc.
The frame represents a different boundary in the product system. In this example, the process under review is the assembly of the hammer, including all raw materials and packaging. The hammer head and hammer handle are intermediate products, created by intermediate processes from raw materials and fuel/electricity. The assembled hammer is also an intermediate product, created by an intermediate process involving the head, handle, and chemicals. Finally, the final packaged product is itself created from intermediate products (the assembled hammer, packaging materials, more chemicals) through yet another intermediate process.
The boundary and product system shown here is the same as the previous example, except simplified. Here, the output of the system is the assembled, packaged hammer. In this example, scrap or waste associated with the hammer assembly process is considered an intermediate product (and, perhaps only later, an output). On the other hand, scrap or waste associated with the packaging process is immediately considered an output.