Environmental footprint impact category that addresses the toxic impacts on an ecosystem, which damage individual species and change the structure and function of the ecosystem. Ecotoxicity is a result of a variety of different toxicological mechanisms caused by the release of substances with a direct effect on the health of the ecosystem.
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 |