Life-cycle Assessment - Four Main Phases

Four Main Phases

According to the ISO 14040 and 14044 standards, a Life Cycle Assessment is carried out in four distinct phases as illustrated in the figure shown to the right. The phases are often interdependent in that the results of one phase will inform how other phases are completed.

Read more about this topic:  Life-cycle Assessment

Famous quotes containing the words main and/or phases:

    I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.
    Alan Brien (b. 1925)

    This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.
    Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)