Life cycle assessment (LCA)

Clare Broadbent, worldsteel's Life Cycle Assessment Manager, gave a presentation on how worldsteel provides the basis for LCA studies at a conference in April 2011.

The presentation covered the following topics:

  • Life cycle thinking in the context of sustainability
  • What is life cycle assessment (LCA)?
  • worldsteel LCA data collection and results
  • Steel and recycling
  • Steel and other materials
  • The use of worldsteel data
  • worldsteel’s role in promoting life cycle thinking
  • A sustainable multi-material world

Two slides from "worldsteel: providing the basis for LCA studies":

Download the full presentation below in PDF format.