Getting the chemicals right: addressing inorganics in sustainability assessments of technologies

Nienke Müller; Peter Fantke

Abstract

A main goal of sustainability research is to enable a technological development in industry and elsewhere that ensures that what is produced and how it is produced today does not harm the quality of human or environmental health for present and future generations. As part of current environmental sustainability
assessments, the toxicity potential of several thousand organic chemicals
is included in characterization models within life cycle impact assessment (LCIA). However, many economic production processes involve the use of inorganic chemicals to a large extent, while the related pressure on human and environmental health of environmental emissions of these substances
is not yet fully understood and not included in any existing LCIA method. In th
is presentation, we provide an overview of the relevance of inorganic chemicals and outline possible ways towards incorporating inorganic chemicals in LCIA
toxicity characterization.

Original language	English
Publication date	2016
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	ATV Sustain conference - Building 101, Lyngby, Denmark Duration: 30 Nov 2016 → 30 Nov 2016

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Conference	ATV Sustain conference
Location	Building 101
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Lyngby
Period	30/11/2016 → 30/11/2016

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