Life cycle assessment
Tim Fargo [Entrepreneur, Autor]
What are the environmental effects of your product along its life cycle?
These and similar questions are coming up more and more frequently among our customers. Considerations regarding the effects of a product on the environment are now common and require precise and standardised evaluation methods - called Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
Your point of contact
What does life cycle assessment mean?
- Systematic viewing of the entire life cycle of products
- An internationally standardised method for environmentally-oriented analysis of product systems (ISO 14040 and ISO 14044)
- A highly developed instrument for analysing environmental influences
- A sales and marketing instrument (linked to cost analysis)
Your advantages with Life Cycle Assessment
Submission of standard-compliant sustainability effort based on a scientific, standardised evidence method.
Transparent internal and external communication based on solid results.
Identification of savings and optimisation potential through early determination of ecological weaknesses, as well as a tool for analysis of all relevant environmental effects of your corporate processes and for solid support for decisions for the most environmentally friendly product and process version.
the trust in the quality and safety of your products is increased.
Our offer
We offer individual advice in order to offer an optimally coordinated analysis for you and your products, processes or services. This way, we can support you in the best way and implement your wishes in a targeted manner. We will support you with every step so that you can reach your goal quickly and securely.
Module 1
Demand determination, introduction and consulting
Module 2
Life Cycle Assessment according to ISO EN 14040/44
Module 3
Footprints
Module 4
Short-term study, screening, hot-spot analysis
Module 5
Material balance, data record compilation
Module 6
Training, workshops
Module 7
Report, certificate
References
Gunther Plötner (founder, project manager and responsible for research and development):
"With our concept, we at PolyCare want to counteract social emergencies by providing affordable living space while at the same time acting in an environmentally conscious manner. EurA AG, under
the direction of Dr. Denise Ott, has therefore commissioned us to develop an LCA.
Initially, however, there were also sceptical questions in the room: "Does an LCA bring us further - isn't that just scientific satisfaction / what for statisticians and authorities - does the
scientist understand the problems of practitioners?
This scepticism was systematically taken away from us by Denise Ott and the EurA team. With their technical understanding, our focus was recognized and understood, the scientific investigations
and evaluations not to lead separate from the facts and possibilities of practical feasibility.
As a result, we have received a document with which we can work as an SME and which shows us ways to environmentally conscious implementation and further development.
Thank you for the very good cooperation, we can only say that the investment was worth it".
EurA AG was included in the Thuringian Sustainability Agreement for the first time on the basis of Grunf of the voluntary sustainability services described above. The Thuringia Sustainability
Agreement is a voluntary agreement between the Thuringian state government and the Thuringian business community. It brings together politics, administration and business, particularly in the
areas of climate and environmental protection, resource conservation, energy efficiency and social sustainability. Under the agreement, companies from Thuringia that operate sustainably
network.
The Thuringia Sustainability Agreement is funded by the Free State of Thuringia through the Thuringian Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Nature Conservation and the Thuringian Ministry for
Economics, Science and the Digital Society.
The certificate was presented to EurA AG on 15 November 2018 at the Thuringian Environment Day in Rudolstadt. EurA AG is thus participating in the agreement until 2021 and intends to continuously improve and further develop its sustainability performance during this period in order to fulfil its responsibility for society and the environment.
Raw material extraction from duckweed
Lemna-Hermetia - Resource-saving, energy-efficient production of biomass from "Lemna" duckweed for the production of biological raw materials for the food industry and animal production.
Duration: 01.01.2018 – 31.12.2019
Project partners: TERRA URBANA Umlandentwicklungs-GmbH, Bio.S Biogas GmbH, Technische Universität Dresden (Institute of Zoology)
The challenge:
Aquacultures should avert overfishing of the seas and sustainably safeguard fish requirements in the food sector. However, the breeding animals are fed with fishmeal derived from wild stocks. In order to operate aquacultures sustainably, a combination with alternative and/or secondary raw material and energy sources is indispensable. Within the scope of the project, an integrated aquaponics model for urban sites is to be developed, optimized and scaled on a large scale, which efficiently combines waste and environmental service concepts in one production system. At the same time, the value chain produces high-quality, market-accessible raw materials for the food industry and animal production.
Our contribution:
The research and development activities of the partners are to be accompanied right from the start by ecological and economic life cycle analyses in order to determine both the most environmentally friendly and the most cost-effective product variant and to pave the way for subsequent certification efforts. Only then can the foundation stone "sustainable alternatives to fishmeal" be laid.
In addition to project coordination, EurA AG takes on the tasks of project-accompanying ecological and economic evaluation.
The result: extraction of sustainable products
The development idea of this project is to produce an optimized fish food from Hermetia Illucens larvae and duckweed (Lemna) sustainably and in an inline circulation system without significant land consumption. In addition to the development of the plant and large-scale technical demonstration, the innovative content of the project lies to a large extent in the optimisation of the fish feed. In addition to a protein-rich fish feed made from Lemna and Hermetia dry matter, other high-quality products leave the production system as required for use in the food industry and animal production: Hermetia dry or live feed, defined and controlled nutrient solutions for hydroponics, Lemna biomass as green fodder or Lemna biomass as starting material for obtaining the raw materials starch, protein and cellulose fibres.
The project is part of the "KMU-innovativ" funding initiative (funding code: 033RK048E). The initiative supports small and medium-sized enterprises in the development of innovative technologies and services for improved resource and energy efficiency.
