Enhancing circularity and resilience of the European industrial value chains through EU product & waste policy measures: insights from Lithium-ion battery, automotive and electronics sectors

Thibaut Maury-Micolier, Nacef Tazi, Silvia Bobba, Martina Orefice, Umberto Eynard, Cynthia Latunussa, Fabrice Mathieux

European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Sustainable Resources Directorate, Ispra, Italy

Life Cycle Circularity Indicator: an extensive version of the Material Circularity Indicator

Geoffrey Lonca, Chloé Dezani, Loïc Levenez

Capgemini Engineering, direction Recherche & Innovation France - 4 avenue Didier Daurat Blagnac 31700, France

Comparison of LCA and circularity indicators: what method to use for what?

Adeline Jerome, Maria Ljunggren, Matty Janssen

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

The applicability of the Organisation Environmental Footprint method as cornerstone for a retailer’s environmental sustainability strategy: insights by early adopter Colruyt Group

Steven Van Hemelryck¹, Cara McHardy¹, Filip Watteyn¹, Carolina Szablewski², Clément Bolle², Naeem Adibi², Wannes Voorend¹, Astrid Van Parys¹

¹Colruyt Group, Belgium; ²WeLOOP, France

Carbon accounting in a circular chemical industry – Challenges in accounting frameworks

Luisa Kuehn, Lydia Pforte, Leonard Mueller, Betuel Kilic Tezcan, Massimo Collotta, Nikolaj Otte

Henkel AG & Co.KGaA, Germany

Exploring the environmental impacts of EV battery supply chains using LCA

Robert Pell, Jordan Lindsay

Minviro

Eco-design and Circular Economy Practices applied to Li-ion Electric Vehicle Batteries

Gabriela Benveniste Pérez, Luis Alberto López, Víctor José Ferreira Ferreira, Cristina Corchero García

IREC, Spain

Circularity performance of reusing, repurposing and recycling solutions for the end-of-life management of electric vehicle batteries

Aitor Picatoste¹, Daniel Justel¹, Joan Manuel F. Mendoza^1,2

¹Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Faculty of Engineering, Mechanics and Industrial Production, Loramendi 4, Mondragon 20500, Gipuzkoa, Spain; ²Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Plaza Euskadi 5, Bilbao 48009 Bizkaia, Spain

Investigating the Influence of Design Parameters on Environmental Impacts of Batteries for e-mobility through the Integration of Ageing Models in Life Cycle Assessment

Teo Lavisse^1,2, Remy Panariello¹, Fabien Perdu¹, Sebastien Rolere¹, Peggy Zwolinski²

¹Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA-Liten, 17 rue des Martyrs, F-38054 Grenoble, France; ²Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, G-SCOP, 46 Avenue Félix Viallet, 38000 Grenoble, France

How to handle constantly changing life-cycle-based carbon calculation methodologies in automotive decarbonisation?

Mara Neef, Thomas Fugger, Tina Dettmer

Volkswagen, Germany

What do we need for a harmonized LCA approach for E-mobility?

Hazem Eltohamy, Jeroen B.Guinee, Bernhard Steubing

Institute of environmental sciences (CML), Leiden University, Einsteinweg 2, 2333CC Leiden, The Netherlands

Dialogue for food waste prevention in the Norwegian value chain

Ellen-Marie Forsberg, Aina Elstad Stensgård

NORSUS Norwegian Institute for Sustainability Research, Norway

A Value Chain Approach to Commodity Risk Assessment in the Retail Sector – the Case of Loblaw Companies Limited (LCL)

Jean-Michel Couture¹, Simon Nadeau¹, Emma Race², Lily McRae²

¹Groupe AGÉCO, Canada; ²Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada

Development of a harmonized LCA methodology for ecolabelling based on supply chain data

Janjoris van Diepen¹, Lisanne de Weert¹, Davide Lucherini¹, Sergiy Smetana², Jonathan Birnie³, Greta Delfino³

¹Blonk Sustainability; ²DIL German Institute of Food Technologies; ³Foundation Earth

Navigating the coming paradigm shift in food ecolabelling – considerations from the science basis

Maëlys Courtat^1,2, P. James Joyce², Sarah Sim², Jhuma Sadhukhan¹, Richard Murphy¹

¹Centre for Environment and Sustainability, University of Surrey, United Kingdom; ²Safety and Environmental Assurance Centre, Unilever R&D, United Kingdom

Key elements to harmonized environmental footprinting and ecolabeling of food products

Roline Broekema, Koen Boone

Wageningen Economic Research, Netherlands, The

Environment labelling consequences for the single-use plastics in retail products

Carolina Szablewski¹, Marie Beccat², Clément Bolle¹, Sam Herlicq¹, Naeem Adibi¹

¹WeLOOP, 254 Rue du Bourg, 59130 Lambersart, France; ²Karbon, 165 Avenue de Bretagne, 59000 Lille, France

Ways Forward to Collect Primary Data in Social LCA

Arij Chabrawi¹, Marzia Traverso¹, Cassia Maria Lie Ugaya², Josemberg Moura³

¹RWTH Aachen University, Germany; ²Universidade Federal Tecnológica do Paraná; ³Universidade de Brasília

Blockchain Architecture as a support for Social Life Cycle Inventory Analysis

Manuela D'Eusanio, Luigia Petti

"G.d'Annunzio" University of Pescara, Department of Economic Studies, Italy

How can the application of the theory of change contribute to developing cause and effect chains in social LCA: the case of cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire

Steven Van Hemelryck¹, Naeem Adibi², Karen Janssens¹, Wannes Voorend¹

¹Colruyt Group, Belgium; ²WeLOOP, France

The ethical implications of scaling social impacts in low Technology Readiness Level assessments: A case study for nano-enabled products

Julieta Díez-Hernández^1,2, Jesús Ibañez², Mario Santiago-Herrera², Rocio Barros², Óscar López-de-Foronda¹, David Blanco-Alcántara¹, Sonia Martel-Martín²

¹Business and Economics conomics Faculty, University of Burgos, Spain; ²ICCRAM, University of Burgos, Spain

Illustrating the role of alternative supply chains and evolved conditions in social life cycle assessment of energy-related products

Mario Martín-Gamboa¹, Diego Iribarren²

¹Rey Juan Carlos University, Chemical and Environmental Engineering Group, 28933, Móstoles, Spain; ²IMDEA Energy, Systems Analysis Unit, 28935, Móstoles, Spain

Direct quantification of indicators in PSILCA – An example of Social Life Cycle Assessment of fuel cell electric vehicle production

Sally Kirsten Springer, Christina Wulf, Zapp Petra

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Energy and Climate Research, Systems Analysis and Technology Evaluation (IEK-STE), Germany

A practitioner’s guide for prospective assessments across the TRLs: A case study on all-solid-state batteries

Svenja Weber¹, Kira Patzke¹, Joris Baars¹, Felipe Cerdas^1,2, Sabrina Zellmer¹, Christoph Herrmann^1,2

¹Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST, Braunschweig, Germany; ²Institute of Machine Tools and Production Technology, Braunschweig, Germany

Recent developments in generating and working with future scenarios in LCA

Bernhard Steubing¹, Romain Sacchi², Angelica Mendoza³

¹Leiden University, Netherlands, The; ²Paul Scherrer Institute; ³LCA 2.0 Consultants

Substitution in prospective life cycle assessment of resource recovery from waste incineration slag

Leon Alexander Zacharopoulos, Jutta Geldermann

University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Airborne Wind Energy – A starlight example of the “reduce” aspect in the energy sector

Karin Treyer, Romain Sacchi

Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

Estimating future environmental impacts for electric vehicle battery raw materials

Ioan-Robert Istrate¹, Bernhard Steubing¹, Antoine Beylot², Jeroen Guinee¹

¹Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University, The Netherlands; ²BRGM - French Geological Survey, France

Advances in prospective LCA of WEEE recycling by thermo-chemical pyrolysis (iCycle®)

Anna Schulte¹, Moema Lamb Scheffler¹, Philip Biessey², Tobias Rieger¹

¹Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology UMSICHT, Germany; ²Ruhr-Universität Bochum ; Universitätsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany

Circularity at different systems level – the CapSEM Model

Annik M Fet, Sandra Tippett-Spirtou

NTNU, Norway

The need for coordinating adoption of circular business models – a challenge for rapid growth of the circular economy

Ottar Michelsen, Arild Aspelund

NTNU - The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

A conceptual methodology to screen and adopt circular business models in small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs): A case study on child safety seats as a product service system

Philipp Rittershaus, Manfred Renner, Venkat Aryan

Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Germany

Can circular economy business models reduce life cycle environmental impacts of the clothing sector?

Sarah Gray¹, Jhuma Sadhukhan², Angela Druckman², Keith James¹

¹WRAP, United Kingdom; ²University of Surrey, United Kingdom

Life cycle assessment as a tool to ensure circular economy drives environmental benefits : A railway signaling study case

Laurent PIERRE-LOUIS, Coline MELLIN, Mélanie BORDIGNON

ALSTOM, France

Development of simulation-based life cycle inventory for battery-grade lithium carbonate produced from different sources

Aina Mas Fons, Rachel Horta Arduin, Philippe Loubet, Guido Sonnemann

Institute of Molecular Sciences, University of Bordeaux, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Bordeaux INP, ISM, UMR 5255, 33400 Talence, France

Technical, economic and environmental characterisation of industrial trends for the decarbonisation of the foundry and steelmaking industries: opportunities and limitations from a life cycle thinking perspective

Leire Gorroño-Albizu¹, Borja Díez¹, Dorleta Ibarra¹, Joan Manuel F. Mendoza^1,2

¹Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Spain; ²IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Spain

Comparative analysis on four allocation approaches for steel products and its implication for a PEFCR development for intermediary steel products

Lisa Damen^1,2, Mihaela Thuring^1,2, Carolin Spirinckx^1,2, Joren Mijnendonckx^1,2

¹VITO, Belgium; ²EnergyVille, Belgium

German ‘Green steel’ initiative

Gerhard Endemann¹, Roland Geres², Stefan Weigert², Jan Bollen³

¹WV Stahl; ²FutureCamp Climate Ltd; ³ArcelorMittal

Carbon footprint and energy transformation analysis of steel produced via a Direct reduction plant with an integrated electric melting unit

Julian Suer, Nils Jäger

thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG, Germany

The zero emission steel mill of the future

Marian Flores Granobles, Eric Deconinck, Wim Van Der Stricht, Jan Bollen

ArcelorMittal

Territorial Life Cycle Assessment of the battery sector in the North of France Region

Agathe Wattelier, Kim Luu, Naeem Adibi, Carolina Szablewski

WeLOOP, France

BioCircularCities: Guidelines for the identification of sustainable and circular solutions for the management of biowaste in urban areas.

Mélanie Guiton¹, Karin Meisterl², Laurène Chochois¹, Laurent Chion¹, Tomás Navarrete Gutiérez¹, Amalia Zucaro³, Rosaria Chifari²

¹Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology - LIST, Luxembourg; ²Fundació ENT, Barcelone, Spain; ³ENEA, Department for Sustainability, Division Resource Efficiency, Research Centre of Portici (NA), Italy

Environmentally-Extended Input-Output analyses efficiently sketch regional environmental transition plans: illustration by Canada’s road industry

Anne Cécile de Bortoli, Maxime Toni Agez

Polytechnique Montreal, Canada

INTEGRATED SUSTAINABILITY EVALUATION OF CURRENT AND PROSPECTIVE SCENARIOS OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN FLOODED ISLANDS: A CASE STUDY IN BATASAN ISLAND, TUBIGON, BOHOL, PHILIPPINES

Rex Ronter Gerigdig Ruiz, Jhud Mikhail Ortillo Aberilla

University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines

Assessing the circular bioeconomy potential at the regional level – A stepwise approach and its application to a metropolitan area in Germany

Almut Güldemund, Liselotte Schebek, Vanessa Zeller

Chair of Material Flow Management and Resource Economy, Institute IWAR, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Use of, and challenges for, LCM in regional development

Jolanta Dvarioniene¹, Pekka Maijala², Fritz Balkau³

¹Kaunas Technical University, Lithuania; ²pyhäjärvi-instituutti, Finland; ³sustainable solutions, France

Social LCA as a preparation step towards future requirements

Shaniq Ursula Pillay, Mark Goedkoop, Rosan Harmens

PRé Sustainability, Netherlands, The

Implementation of Social Value Assessment: The perspective from Corbion

Ana Morao, Darien Holman, Diana Visser

Corbion, Sustainability Department, Netherlands

Applied Qualitative Methods for Social Life-cycle Assessment: A Case Study of Canadian Beef

Robyn Graham¹, Jean-Michel Couture², Simon Nadeau²

¹Canfax Research Services, Canada; ²Groupe AGÉCO, Canada

Type II S-LCA to rethink CSR actions: case study of an agricultural company

Anaïs FALK^1,2, Catherine MACOMBE³, Denis LOEILLET²

¹Vitropic S.A., 34210 Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers, France; ²UPR GECO, University of Montpellier, CIRAD, 34398 Montpellier, France; ³ITAP, INRAE, Institut Agro, University of Montpellier, 34060 Montpellier, France

The application of S-LCA to address lithium mining and its potential impacts on water and the local community in Chile

Lindsey Roche, Sylvia Marinova, Andreas Link, Matthias Finkbeiner

Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Multi-scope social life cycle impact assessment: application to offshore wind energy sector in France

Jérémie Lehmann^1,2, Rhoda Fofack-Garcia², Paula Pérez-López¹, Ghada Bouillass³

¹Mines Paris, France; ²France Energies Marines; ³CentraleSupélec, France

Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of reusable and single-use specula used in Belgian hospitals

Sophie Huysveld¹, Liesbet Demarré², Katrien Vanderwee², Simon Malfait², Veerle Duprez², Jo Dewulf¹, Norbert Fraeyman²

¹Sustainable Systems Engineering (STEN), Department of Green Chemistry and Technology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Ghent, Belgium; ²Ghent University Hospital, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

An LCA comparing healthcare facility-based haemodialysis with home haemo- and peritoneal dialysis in Australia

Scott McAlister^1,2, Katherine Barraclough³

¹The University of Melbourne, Australia; ²The University of Sydney, Australia; ³The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia

Life Cycle Assessment of phase I and phase III clinical trials

Rodrigo Alvarenga¹, Jason LaRoche², Annemie Chiau², Thomas Costelloe³, Michael Collins³, Simon Aumônier⁴

¹ERM, Belgium; ²Janssen Clinical Innovation (JCI); ³ERM, United Kingdom; ⁴Aumônier Consulting Limited

The Application of LCA in Healthcare Using the Care Pathway Approach

Aoife Calnan¹, Nigel Budgen², Thomas Costelloe¹, Rodrigo Alvarenga¹, Michael Collins¹

¹ERM; ²AstraZeneca

Calculation of Scope 3 GHG emissions of purchased goods and services applying a hybrid approach based on life cycle thinking

Aoife Calnan¹, Saori Galley¹, Amelia Nunn², Simon Aumônier³

¹ERM; ²Becton Dickinson; ³Aumônier Consulting

A Collaborative Approach towards Product Category Rules for Pharmaceuticals

Isolda Agustí-Juan¹, Sarah Arias-Zeballos², Wouter De Soete³, Trine Lund Neidel⁴, Sarah Mandlebaum⁵, Barry Dillon⁶, Oliver Schwab⁷, Andy Whiting⁸

¹Roche Diagnostics International AG; ²Sanofi Winthrop Industrie; ³Janssen Pharmaceutica NV; ⁴Novo Nordisk; ⁵Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited; ⁶Pfizer; ⁷GSK plc; ⁸AstraZeneca UK Limited