Life Cycle Impact Assessment ReCiPe

A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) facilitates the systematic quantitative assessment of products, both goods and services, in terms of environmental, human health, and resource consumption considerations. The full life cycle of a product is taken into account– this includes the supply of raw materials, processing, transport, retail, use, as well as end-of-life waste management.

ReCiPe is a method for the impact assessment (LCIA) in a LCA. Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) translates emissions and resource extractions into a limited number of environmental impact scores by means of so-called characterization factors. The normalization factors serve to indicate the share of the modeled characterized results in a worldwide or regional total.

There are two mainstream ways to derive characterization factors, i.e. at midpoint level and at endpoint level. ReCiPe calculates:

- 18 midpoint indicators

- 3 endpoint indicators

Midpoint indicators focus on single environmental problems, for example climate change or acidification. Endpoint indicators show the environmental impact on three higher aggregation levels, being the 1) effect on human health, 2) biodiversity and 3) resource scarcity, converting midpoints to endpoints.

ReCiPe Impact assessment database provides characterization and normalization factors for both levels, midpoint and endpoint.

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Website:

http://www.rivm.nl/en/Topics/L/Life_Cycle_Assessment_LCA/ReCiPe

Date (Creation): 2016-12-15

Date (Publication): 2016-12-15

Date (Revision): 2017-01-20

Edition: ReCiPe2016

Citation identifier: https://www.mica-project.eu/ / MICA_B3-117
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Purpose: need to provide an operational set of Life Cycle Impact Assessment factors to be used in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of products and services.

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)			Resource provider

Maintenance and update frequency: Irregular

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Environmental impact assessment

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Environmental pollution

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Health

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Landscapes

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Minerals

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Reserves

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Resources

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Gold

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Silver

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Platinum

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Palladium

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Other platinum group metals (iridium)

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Other platinum group metals (osmium)

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Other platinum group metals (rhodium)

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Other platinum group metals (ruthenium)

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Aluminium

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Copper

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Lead

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Zinc

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Chromium

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Cobalt

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Iron

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Manganese

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Molybdenum

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Nickel

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Niobium

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Tungsten

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Vanadium

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Antimony

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Beryllium

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Bismuth

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Cadmium

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Cesium

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Gallium

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Germanium

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Hafnium

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Indium

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Lithium

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Magnesium

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Mercury

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Rare earths (undifferentiated)

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Rhenium

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Rubidium

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Selenium

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Tantalum

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Tellurium

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Titanium

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Zirconium

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Anthracite

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Bituminous coal

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Other hard coal

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Lignite

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Crude oil

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Oil shale

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Natural gas

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Geothermal energy

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Peat

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Thorium

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Uranium

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Diamonds

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Ruby, saphire, corundum (gemstone)

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Arsenic

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Borates

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Diatomite

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Feldspar

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Fluorspar (fluorite)

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Graphite

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Gypsum

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Iodine

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Mica

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Salt

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Talc

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Pyrite

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Potash

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Bentonite

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Sepiolite

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Kaolin

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Brick or tile clays

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Engineering clay (Other clays)

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Halloysite (Other clays)

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