Eco-COMPASS: The Comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment Tool

摘要

Eco-COMPASS is a comprehensive product assessment tool for comparing any two products suitable for a particular application area. "Comprehensive" means that Eco-COMPASS gives equal weight to technical, economic, and environmental criteria. It also means that a product is "followed" throughout its life span from materials and parts to product manufacture and use, all the way through to recycling or disposal of the production waste and of the used product itself. At the center of this process is of course the requirement that the product should perform its assigned function as completely as possible in con-formance with the customer's stipulations.