Life cycle impact assessment aims to translate the amounts of substance emitted during the life cycle of a product into a potential impact on the environment, which includes terrestrial ecosystems. This work suggests some possible improvements in assessing the toxicity of metals on soil ecosystems in life cycle assessment (LCA). The current available data on soil ecotoxicity allow one to calcul...

Life cycle assessment (LCA) has been widely applied to improve the environmental performance of building sector. However, due complexity LCA results including multitude impact categories, decision makers materials manufacturing industry are grappling with allocating their limited resources most influential categories. The aim this article, therefore, is propose an category selection tool that e...

Previously, toxicity of some synthetic detergents (including laundry detergents) to the plant seedlings several species terrestrial higher plants was discovered in research conducted at Moscow University by S.A.Ostroumov. A new example a detergent found this study. The tested, namely liquid (LLD) “Blue Moon”, which manufactured Blue Moon Group Co, Ltd (Guangzhou, China), produced noticeable phy...

There is a growing interest in accounting for the environmental externalities and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with building industry. This study examines life cycle impacts of novel biomass-based aerogel material manufactured via freeze drying method comprising three process stages, i.e., gel preparation, aging drying. The main focus this to evaluate contribution each stage load u...

Remarks: Neat Na-LAS was 16.1 % (w/w) active C11.6 LAS in an aqueous solution, average molecular weight = 342 g/mol; Ca-LAS was > 99 % active C11.6 LAS (crystalline), average molecular weight = 674 g/mol (Ca is bivalent and therefore, each Ca atom has 2 LAS molecules); Mg-LAS 94 % active C11.6 LAS (crystalline), average molecular weight = 658 g/mol (Mg is bivalent and therefore, each Mg atom ha...

The production of textile materials has undergone dramatic changes in the last century. Man-made cellulose fibres have played an important role for more than 70 years. Today, the man-made cellulose fibre industry is the worldwide second largest biorefinery (next to the paper industry). In the last few years, the interest in man-made cellulose fibres has grown as a consequence of increased envir...

The European Construction Products Regulation allows Member States to adopt rules for evaluating the environmental impact of their buildings. The aim of the project was to develop recommendations for a test battery for the ecotoxicological assessment of the environmental impact of construction products for outdoor use and contribute to the European harmonization of test methods. From a shortlis...

Hazard classification of waste is a necessity, but the hazard properties (named "H" and soon "HP") are still not all defined in a practical and operational manner at EU level. Following discussion of subsequent draft proposals from the Commission there is still no final decision. Methods to implement the proposals have recently been proposed: tests methods for physical risks, test batteries for...

Use of chemical criteria in assessing the potential for adverse toxic effects in contaminated sites can under or overestimate the necessary level of site cleanup required. The use of ecotoxicity testing provides a more direct assessment of adverse environmental impact. A multi-trophic level soil ecotoxicity assessment was done on soil contaminated with crude oil distilled into five different fr...