Global Warming Potential (GWP)
The climate change indicator in most LCAs, expressing all greenhouse gas emissions as the amount of carbon dioxide that would cause the same warming, usually over 100 years (GWP100). In…
Glossary Terms
Working definitions for the terms that recur across this project: the circular economy, water resource recovery and reuse, and the life cycle methods -- LCA, LCC and S-LCA -- that AWARE combines into one sustainability assessment. They are written for a general reader rather than for specialists.
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Goal and Scope Definition
The first phase of an LCA, where the study's purpose, intended audience and ground rules are fixed: the functional unit, the system boundary, the impact categories to be assessed, allocation…
Greywater
Domestic wastewater from sinks, showers, baths and washing machines, excluding toilet wastewater (blackwater). Being less contaminated, it can be treated locally with simpler systems -- such as the experimental green…
Definitions are written for this site in plain language. The selection of terms was checked against the Life Cycle Initiative terminology (UNEP), the ILCA Common Glossary and the SimaPro LCA glossary, and against ISO 14040/14044, ISO 14046, ISO 14075 and the UNEP Guidelines for Social Life Cycle Assessment (2020).
