Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
A practical guide to grow business with plastics
 

Attend this practical e-Training Course and get to know how to turn Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) into business advantage for your plastics.

  • Gain confidence in making environmental claims by learning how to make reliable assumptions on transport, waste treatment...


  • Uncap your growth potential by identifying opportunities for improvement of your material-process-product system

    • 5 reasons to attend this online course:
    Reason 1 Increase sales by showing environmental competitiveness of your product with objective indicators

    Reason 2 Improve precision at product development by understanding the balance between reduction in water consumption vs. CO2 emission

    Reason 3 Gain confidence in conducting LCA on your own with practical methodology application on bio-based vs. conventional materials

    Reason 4 Learn to lead sustainable development by learning to use LCA as a strategic tool in your business

    Reason 5 Interact with our expert Raul Carlson and get advices to efficiently implement LCA in your daily processes

    COURSE TYPE: R&D Efficiency - Introductory Level

    Ideally suited for Business and Products Developers and Sales and Marketing people with a need to navigate within new markets emerging from sustainable development.

    Prerequisite: Attendants should have a general awareness that industry and business have commercial and other economic interests in dealing with environmental considerations.


    WHAT YOU WILL TAKE AWAY FROM THIS COURSE:

    Plastic and polymers are often questioned from an environmental viewpoint and the industry now needs to provide facts in a systematic way and be able to prove that actually, plastics can be the environmental solution.

    This e-Training Course will help attendees understand how to implement LCA as a powerful business tool and get the fundamental knowledge to make educated environmental claims.

    Attendees will have a clearer idea on:

  • What are the principles of LCA?
  • What can you do & not do with LCA study?
  • What indicators to use to properly describe the environmental profile of your products?
  • How to deal with asumptions to keep an objective and standardized assessment?
  • How to compare “non comparable data” such as CO2 emission and water consumption?
  • ...


    • Early Registrants: Submit your specific needs when registering and let Raul Carlson help you find appropriate solutions.

    The following sections will be covered during the session:

    1. Life cycle assessment (LCA): a tool, a viewpoint and an international standard
    2. The environmental issues of the plastics and polymers business, from the LCA viewpoint
    3. LCA in business development, sales and product development
    4. A practical example, a simple LCA case study
    5. Wrapping up and recalling some highlights

    There will be a 30 min live question and answer session after the presentation, where you can ask our expert Raul Carlson about your specific questions. A transcript of this will be made available after the event.

    Please also note that all participants will be emailed a copy of the presentation before the course.
    Raul Carlson Raul Carlson
          Dr Raul Carlson has worked with developing life cycle assessment (LCA) into a business advantage tool for Swedish companies since early 1990s. In the first years his work focused on information handling for LCA, and was soon oriented towards practical integration of LCA into the different business functions of companies.

    Dr Carlson was employed by Chalmers university of technology in Sweden between 1995 and 2008. Between 1996 and 2001 he was project manager for building the Swedish national LCA database for academy and industries. This was done within the frame of the Swedish national competence center CPM (Center for environmental assessment of Product and Material systems), an inter-sectorial joint research industry and academy research center financed by the Swedish industry and government. Between 2001 and 2008 Raul Carlson was assigned head of an industrial environmental research group at the Chalmers university, the group performed practical research together with Swedish, European and international industries in order to develop and integrate environmental management tools for business purposes. Dr Carlson has experience from working intimately with a wide range of industries, including chemical, paper and forestry, automotive, heavy electrical equipment, transport, consumer electronics and service industry.

    Dr Carlson has participated in the international standardization on Life Cycle Assessment since 1998. In the beginning he particularly worked on ISO /TS 14048 as Swedish expert in the international work and as convener in the Swedish mirror group. He has also participated in the revision of the ISO 14040 standards and in the development of the ongoing standardization about eco-efficiency. From June 2009 he will chair a new international standardization work group on environmental information quality.

    Since 2003 Dr Raul Carlson has developed and held a course in LCA for ISO. Raul Carlson has held the course at several different places over the world and have drawn participants from around 40 countries. Based on this course he also authored a Swedish handbook in LCA according to ISO, and in May 2009 he received Author of the Year award from the Swedish Standards Institute for this handbook.

    Today Dr Carlson combines his time as industrial sustainable business consultant towards with a position as senior researcher at the Swedish Viktoria transport & vehicle research institute.
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    Course Snapshot

    Category

    R&D Efficiency - Introductory Level

    Objective

  • Understand how to implement LCA in your daily processes


  • Be better equipped to define and support your plastics environmental performance

    • For Whom

  • Business Developers
  • Sales & Marketing people
  • Product Developers
  • All those interested in getting more benefits and business from the sustainable development trend.
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