A proposed tool to integrate environmental and economical assessments of products

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• 作者：Senthil ; Kumaran D. ; Ong ; S.K. ; Nee ; A.Y.C. ; Tan ; Reginald B.H.
• 关键词：Life cycle assessment (LCA) ; Life cycle costing (LCC) ; Life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) ; Life cycle environmental cost analysis (LCECA) ; Eco-costs ; CBS ; cost breakdown structure ; CCDS ; consolidated cost data sheet ; EPS ; expanded polystyrene ; LCA ; life cycl
• 刊名：Environmental Impact Assessment Review
• 出版年：2003
• 出版时间：January, 2003
• 年：2003
• 卷：23
• 期：1
• 页码：51-72
• 全文大小：230 K

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An attempt has been made to interpret the outcomes of a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in terms of environmental costs. This attempt ensures the environmental accountability of the products while LCA ensures their eco-friendly nature. Keeping this as an objective, a Life Cycle Environmental Cost Analysis (LCECA) model was developed. This new tool incorporates costing into the LCA practice. This model prescribes a life cycle environmental cost model to estimate and correlate the effects of these costs in all the life cycle stages of the product. The newly developed categories of eco-costs are: costs of effluent treatment/control/disposal, environmental management systems, eco-taxes, rehabilitation, energy and savings of recycling and reuse strategies. The mathematical model of LCECA determines quantitative expressions between the total cost of products and the various eco-costs. The eco-costs of the alternatives are compared with the computational LCECA model. This method enables the environmental as well as the economic assessment of products, which leads to cost-effective, eco-friendly design of products.