Sustainability Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA)

Assessing the sustainability of products

Overview

The Natural Step has developed the Sustainability Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) tool for assessing product sustainability. The SLCA can be described as tool that provides a strategic overview of the full scope of social and ecological sustainability at the product level. It results in an analysis - using colors instead of numbers - that allows the company to see the major impact of today’s product through the whole lifecycle in relation to principle requirements of sustainability.

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