Jonas Bengtsson New ALCAS President
Jonas Bengtsson, CEO of Edge Environment, was elected as the new President of ALCAS at the July AGM, taking over from Tim Grant who has...
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Consensus Model for Water Scarcity Footprints Published
The Water Use in Life Cycle Assessment (WULCA), a working group of the UNEP-SETAC Life Cycle Initiative, has been working for 2 years to...
Life Cycle Initiative Call for Members
The Secretariat of the Life Cycle Initiative is calling for new individual and institutional members. The Life Cycle Initiative is a...
Waste & Recycling Expo in Melbourne 23&24 August
AWRE are hosting The Australasian Waste & Recycling Expo at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre on 23/24 August 2017. The Expo...
LCA compares three production methods of butanol
An LCA recently published in the journal Fuel compares three production methods of butanol. Oxo synthesis ABE fermentation using corn ABE...
Declarations reinforce OneSteel’s sustainable strategy
The following article was originally published in Steel Australia (March 2017) and is republished here with the kind permission of the...
Life Cycle Initiative publishes new strategy: 2017-2022
A new strategy for Life Cycle Initiative, the public-private partnership Life Cycle Initiative, the public-private partnership hosted by...
First comprehensive LCA review on underground piping in North America
The Uni-Bell PVC Pipe Association, which represents US and Canadian manufacturers of PVC pipes, has published the first comprehensive...
ALCAS Student Webinar Series
To date ALCAS have hosted two student webinars. The first with Tim Grant covered defining functional units. The was follow by Rob...
ALCAS Webinars to cover first Industrial Ecology Virtual Lab, Circular Economy and Carbon Storage
The 2017 ALCAS webinar series kicked off on 17 May with a presentation on the first phase of the UNEP/SETAC impact assessment flagship...
Call for Abstracts: Indian Conference on Life Cycle Management (ILCM) 2017
ALCAS always encourages members to share their knowledge with others in our region. The Indian Conference on Life Cycle Management is...
IEA to Assess Life Cycle Related Environmental Impacts Caused by Building
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has launched a new program to assess the environmental impacts of buildings. Annex 72 sets out to...
UN Resource Panel Report on Green Technology Choices
What happens when low-carbon electricity supply technologies are deployed alongside energy efficient technologies? A recently launched...
Webinars Provide EPD Insights
Sustainability experts thinkstep have developed two one demand webinars to help better understand the process of developing EPDs. Keep...
Study Compares Water Footprint Indicators in the application of ISO14046
ISO14046 sets out principles, requirements and guidelines for the quantification of a water footprint taking a life cycle perspective....
Update from the Australasian EPD Programme – May 2017
It has been a busy and exciting few months for the Australasian EPD Programme. In March this year Stephen Mitchell of Stephen Mitchell...
Update from the Australasian EPD Programme – May 2017
It has been a busy and exciting few months for the Australasian EPD Programme. In March this year Stephen Mitchell of Stephen Mitchell...
Nominations for ALCAS Board Positions Sought
The next ALCAS AGM is being held on the 28th of July. Nominations will be sought at the AGM for board members. "Fresh blood" is so...
A fresh look at sewage sludge LCA
To those who promote its use in agriculture the word is "biosolids", to those who fear its use it is "sewage sludge". Either way it has...
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