Stroll through any aisle in the grocery store today and it won’t take long to find products that claim to be sustainable. Some brands might profess how much energy was offset to make a product, while ...

Life cycle assessments (LCA) are one tool OEMs, fabricators and suppliers can use to understand – and improve – the environmental impact of composite parts and materials. Examples shown include an LCA ...

This session will start with an interactive exercise to explore a real-life business sustainability challenge and uncover the power of life cycle assessment (LCA). Seven Concordia graduate students ...

In our efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, carbon capture is mentioned as a possible technology. CO2 can, for example, be captured from large industrial companies and from incineration plants.

Product life cycle is the life expectancy of a product from the time it is launched until it is no longer available. The length of the product life cycle varies based on industry, product and market ...

Global urbanization is accelerating, and it is estimated that by 2050, up to 68 percent of the population will reside in urban regions. Cement, clay brick, ceramics, mortar, wood, plastic, and steel ...

Just like people, most products go through several distinct phases during their lifetime. Once products are introduced, they'll go through periods of growth, maturity and eventual decline. That's ...

Sharmon Lebby is a writer and sustainable fashion stylist who studies and reports on the intersections of environmentalism, fashion, and BIPOC communities. The Life Cycle Assessment, or LCA, is a ...