A product’s life cycle that includes raw material extraction, processing, distribution, storage, use, and disposal or recycling stages. All relevant inputs and outputs are considered for all of the stages of the life cycle.
Source category: EC Policy Documents
| Reference description | EC, 2013, Commission Recommendation of 9 April 2013 on the use of common methods to measure and communicate the life cycle environmental performance of products and organisations. OJ L124, 04.05.2013, pp. 1-210. |
| Originally Published | Last Updated | 12 Feb 2018 | 04 Jan 2021 |
| Knowledge service | Metadata | Bioeconomy |