Energy
Waste
Water and Sewage
Transport
Green Blue
Buildings & land use
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Tool summary

Name of the tool
Eco-indicator 99

Description of the tool
The Eco-indicator 99 is an LCA (Cycle Impact Assessment) weighing method specially developed for product design. It is based on three types of environmental damages (human health, ecosystem quality and resources) and the links between them. The Pré Eco-indicator computes easy to use standard indicator scores. These single scores can be used as a user friendly tool by designers and product managers. The Eco-indicator of a material or process is a single number that indicates the environmental impact of a material or process, based on data from a life cycle assessment. The procedures include as follows: resource analysis, land-use analysis, fate analysis, exposure and effect analysis, damage analysis, normalization and weighting. The higher the indicator, the greater the environmental impact.

Specific topic
The LCA weighting of product being designed.

Sector/s of use

Waste

Energy

Water

Transport

Green/Blue

Building & Land use

1

1

1

1

0

1

M - main sector, 1 - sub sector and 0 - n/a

Scale of applications

Component

Building

Neighbourhood

City

Region

1

0

0

0

0