Reports 2005, January

The project has developed a detailed and well-documentet method, that can be used to establish a product-oriented background for decisions regarding target areas in the environmetal field. The report descibes the methodology and development of the...

This inventory summarizes and discusses current releases, usage and disposal of mercury within the eight Arctic countries. Futhermore, legislation and technical measures that are in use or could be considered to reduce mercury releases are conside...

The main effort in the project has been to update the normalisation and weightingfactors for use in LCA-work based on the EDIP method. The report also suggests normalisationfactors, that can be used for calculation within af EU or a global perspec...

A study has been made on the use of siloxanes in Denmark. The consumption is 3,100 tonnes yearly in the production of e.g. sealants, cosmetics, paints and detergents. Knowledge about the effects on humans and the environment is scarce, but some ...

The study gives a survey of chemical substances that can migrate from surface-treated wooden toys, and of the substances to which consumers can be exposed. 15 toys that are likely to be put in the mouth were selected for analysis. Of the 125 subs...

The aim of the project has been to contribute to a solution of the poor accuracy of the assessed impact in typical LCA resulting from the (present) disregard of spatial information in LCA. The report present actual methodolgy for spatial different...