research

Life Cycle Research

Green Seal conducts life cycle assessment research to identify environmental hot spots for products and services. This informs the development of greener products and services, standards and certification, procurement specifications, and educational tools.  Below are links to the abstracts of two studies Green Seal has published in the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment.

• Restaurant and food service life cycle assessment and development of a sustainability standard

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volume 16, Number 1, 40-49, DOI: 10.1007/s11367-010-0234-x

• Comparative life cycle assessment of conventional and Green Seal-compliant industrial and institutional cleaning products

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
DOI: 10.1007/s11367-011-0373-8

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