OMNIITOX - operational life-cycle impact assessment models and information tools for practitioners
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2004

This article is the preamble to a set of articles describing initial results from an on-going European Commission funded, 5th Framework project called OMNIITOX, Operational Models aNd Information tools for Industrial applications of eco/TOXicological impact assessments. The different parts of this case study-driven project are briefly presented and put in relation to the aims of contributing to an operational life cycle-impact assessment (LCIA) model for impacts of toxicants. The present situation has been characterised by methodological difficulties, both regarding choice of the characterisation model(s) and limited input data on chemical properties, which often has resulted in the omission of toxicants from the LCIA, or at best focus on well characterised chemicals. The project addresses both problems and integrates models, as well as data, in an information system- the OMNIITOX IS. There is also a need for clarification of the relations between the (environmental) risk assessments of toxicants and LCIA, in addition to investigating the feasibility of introducing LCA into European chemicals legislation, tasks that also were addressed in the project. Keywords: Case studies; characterisation factor; chemicals; environmental risk assessment; hazard assessment; information system; life cycle impact assessment (LCIA); potentially toxic substances; regulation; risk assessment; risk ranking

Characterisation Factor

Impact Category

Life Cycle Impact Assessment

Life Cycle Assessment

Life Cycle Impact Assessment Method

Författare

Sverker Molander

Chalmers, Energi och miljö, Environmental Systems Analysis

Peter Lidholm

Volvo Group

Diederik Schowanek

Procter and Gamble

Mar Recasens

Antonio Puig, S.A.

Pere Fullana i Palmer

Randa Group

Frans M. Christensen

Gemensamma forskningscentrumet (JRC), Europeiska kommissionen

Jeroen Guniée

Universiteit Leiden

Michael Hauschild

Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)

Olivier Jolliet

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)

David W. Pennington

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Raul Carlson

Chalmers, Göteborgs miljövetenskapliga centrum (GMV)

Till Bachmann

Universität Stuttgart

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

0948-3349 (ISSN) 1614-7502 (eISSN)

Vol. 9 5 282-288

Drivkrafter

Hållbar utveckling

Ämneskategorier

Annan naturresursteknik

DOI

10.1007/BF02979417

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