Life cycle assessment (LCA) and greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories are two key measurement tools being used to track an organization’s environmental impact. Is one more effective than the other? The ...

Two analytic perspectives on environmental assessment dominate environmental policy and decision-making: risk analysis (RA) and life-cycle assessment (LCA). RA focuses on management of a toxicological ...

Researchers in Australia have conducted a ‘cradle to grave’ life cycle assessment (LCA) of the four most widely used PV technologies. The academics say that cadmium telluride solar modules have the ...

Balancing the sustainability of these items with the benefits they seem to offer society, which range from convenience to sterility, has never been easy, and is even more difficult now. First, there’s ...

Cycle inventory counting is an inventory management approach where part of an inventory is counted each day. A counting schedule is developed, and specified areas of inventory are checked according to ...

It is time to stop discussing whether electric cars are good or bad. Instead industry, authorities and policy-makers need to work together to make them as eco-friendly as possible. One researcher now ...

After banning plastic bags last year, New Zealand now proposes to regulate single-use plastic packaging and to ban various hard-to-recycle plastics and single-use plastic items. These moves come in ...

Livestock farming causes a significant share of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. According to a new study, the carbon ...