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This chapter explains how to assess the environmental impact of lighting products by applying Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology, and how the LCA results can be used to inform eco-design recommendations to reduce the environmental impact of lighting products. This is illustrated using a real-life example, where the environmental impact of a lighting product manufactured by a lighting manufacturer is assessed with Simapro (LCA-based software). After the illustration, the limitations of LCA are discussed.
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The authors acknowledge the financial support received from the financial support from the European Commission’s CIP-EACIECO-INNOVATION programme for the Ecolights project (grant no. ECO/11/304409). The authors also would like to thank Ona Product S.L. (www.ona.es) for providing their lighting products, as well as other necessary product life cycle information for this study.
Original source of the contents: Casamayor, J. L., Su, D., & Ren, Z. (2017). Comparative life cycle assessment of LED lighting products. Lighting Research & Technology, (0), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477153517708597. Copyright © SAGE Publications 2017.
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Casamayor, J.L., Su, D. (2020). Assessment of the Environmental Impact of Lighting Product. In: Su, D. (eds) Sustainable Product Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39149-2_13
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