Wool in Life Cycle Assessments and Design Tools - SIFO
Wool in Life Cycle Assessments and Design Tools - SIFO Wool in Life Cycle Assessments and Design Tools - SIFO
A lot of textiles are manufactured in Asia, still there is hardly any site specific data available fromAsian industry and manufacturing. Which leaves us to assumptions and approximate data, forinstance we can use “worst-case” European data to simulate Chinese data. Considering what weknow about working-conditions in Asia, and lack of pollution-control of water, land and air, this isprobably the biggest void in knowledge of real impacts we have. This has not been addressed in anystudy so far. Since large amounts of textiles are manufactured in Asian low-cost countries it is a weakpoint in all LCA that we lack a lot of real facts and life cycle data on impacts from this industry.LCA is a snapshot of a given situation, stating facts. It is up to the user to understand how to utilizethis information as a basis for improvements - and if to, alongside making good decisions based uponscientific evidence. An LCA is dependent on its input, whoever interprets it, and the communicationof findings.7
- Page 1 and 2: Valuing Norwegian WoolWP5: Environm
- Page 3 and 4: 1. IntroductionSeveral tools have e
- Page 5: 3. SummaryLife Cycle Analysis (LCA)
- Page 9: entire LCA? Is it a question of ove
- Page 13 and 14: etween a full color palette and mix
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- Page 17 and 18: 11. Conclusions on LCA as tool for
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