Building a model based on scientific consensus for Life Cycle Impact Assessment of chemicals: the search for harmony and parsimony.

By Michel Hauschild, Mark A. J. Huijbregts, O. Jolliet, M. MacLeod, M. Margni, D. van de Meent, R. Rosenbaum, Thomas McKone. Environmental Science and Technology, 2008

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Circular economy: To be or not to be in a closed product loop? A Life Cycle Assessment of aluminium cans with inclusion of alloying elements (2016, methodology): “We further tested the human toxicity impact category which, compared to other impact categories in LCI, is affected by higher variability among the characterization models (Hauschild et al. 2008).”
Recent developments in Life Cycle Assessment. (2009, background): “An alternative solution is to include an impact category called ‘‘stored toxicity’’ which keeps account of the amount of the toxic loads that are left in the waste at the end of the chosen time period (Christensen et al., 2007; Hauschild et al., 2008b).”
Increasing Cropping System Diversity Balances Productivity, Profitability and Environmental Health (2012, methodology): “Ecotoxicological Calculations Freshwater ecotoxicity of pesticide use was estimated using the USEtox model [40–42].”
Life Cycle Impact Assessment (2015, positive): “USEtox was the preferred choice, since it reflects the latest consensus amongst different modellers and their associated models, being parsimonious while falling in the range of previous models (Hauschild et al. 2008).”