Free datasets from USDA and EXIOBASE are available, as are datasets for purchases such as ecoinvent or GaBi.
There are a number of resources readily available on the openLCA and Nexus websites. We are proud to Partner with GreenDelta in promoting the use of transparent, high quality LCA datasets and open source software. openLCA is the premier free and open source life cycle assessment software tool. Then it should be fairly easy to justify paying for the database compared to the relative costs of someone doing it on our behalf.Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Solid Waste Management Consultants - Franklin Associates: Life Cycle Services Home | Contact Us | ERG.com Franklin Associates: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Solid Waste Management Consultants A Division of ERGįranklin Associates is the openLCA Partner in the United States. Once, I prove that this is something I should be able to do. It could be an old version of the dataset not the most current I don't mind as I'm not looking to create anything commercially useful at this stage, just trying to do a feasibility study of using the free OpenLCA software and a quality database to create our own LCA's. In order to give the OpenLCA software and the idea of creating our own LCA's a fair chance is there a free trial of one of the paid databases (EcoInvent, EuGeos or another)?
However, the free databases do not seem to have all the data I need. To have a play with OpenLCA and see whether using OpenLCA to create our own LCA's in the future, which could then be given to an EPD provider to produce a third-party verified EPD. I've downloaded the OpenLCA software and a copy of some of the free databases. The products in questions are construction products made out of plasticised PVC.
I'm currently reviewing our companies EPD strategy, previously we have collated the relevant data and sent it to an LCA expert to produce an LCA for us which was then used to get an EN 15804 EPD.
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