LCA of an Ecolabeled Notebook - GreenDeltaTC

Laptop design
Laptop assembly Distribution
Packaging
Production of basic materials
Figure 5: Flow chart of the product system for the S-LCA
Goal and Scope
2.2.3 Data Requirements
2.2.3.1 Data Types
For a reliable S-LCA study, country-, sector- as well as organisation-, and site-specific
data are needed. Organisation- and site-specific data are essential for the investigation
of specific companies, but also country- and sector-specific information is important.
The latter serve as a reference value for the corporate performance. For example, the
specification of the wage level is as such not satisfying without consideration of the
local living costs.
The study distinguishes between foreground and background processes. For foreground
processes all four data types (country-, sector-, organisation-, and site-specific
data) are ascertained, for background processes data on country and sector level are
considered solely. If a sector in a specific country consists of just a few companies, all
companies are considered in the social inventory. If a sector comprises in contrast a
multitude of enterprises, only some of them are analysed and the average is described.
2.2.3.2 Time Reference
For both environmental and social analysis, goal is to provide a hot spot analysis, which
allows a bit more relaxed time frame. A detailed analysis would need to look at more
recent data, throughout.
S-LCA and E-LCA have different requirements for the time reference. Social conditions
and impacts can change very fast, and therefore data of the S-LCI should be as current
Use
20%
Production of pre-products Recycling Recycling
in Belgium in China
Raw material extraction
80%
Recycling
Reuse
Assembly
Reuse
only considered
in the S-LCA
only considered
in the E-LCA
considered in both
LCAs
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