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Scenario analysis: how end-of-life assumptions decide the result
Nobody knows what recycling infrastructure will look like in fifty years. How to work with that uncertainty and report scenarios honestly.
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Every clca article tagged “Module D” — 4 technical pieces covering the topic from methodology, standards interpretation and practical application angles.
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10 min readGreen Building
Whole life carbon: reading the A, B, C and D modules together
Optimising embodied and operational carbon separately gives the wrong answer. Cross-module trade-offs and the right place for Module D.
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Module D: beyond system boundaries — claiming the recycle credit correctly
Module D reports future benefits from recycling. End-of-waste criteria, secondary material quality, steel 90% vs plastic 30% examples.
Read more10 min readFundamentals
What is the circular economy? And how is it measured with LCA?
Circularity is not an environmental benefit in itself — it has to be measured. When recycling wins, and when it does not.
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- fundamentals20
- data quality15
- EN 1580412
- CBAM11
- building LCA10
- EPD10
- embodied carbon9
- sector LCA9
- ecoinvent8
- Scope 38
- construction product EPD7
- life cycle assessment7
- recycled content7
- corporate carbon footprint6
- biogenic carbon5
- embedded emissions5
- functional unit5
- ISO 140405
- carbon footprint5
- verification5
- carbon pricing4
- circular economy4
- CSRD4
- EN 159784
- end-of-life scenario4
- environmental claim4
- EPD program operator4
- green building4
- impact categories4
- CO2 equivalent3
- data collection3
- Digital Product Passport3
- electricity emission factor3
- emission factor3
- energy efficiency3
- environmental regulation3
- export compliance3
- green building certification3
- uncertainty analysis3
- PCR3
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