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What is the Difference Between Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) and Life Cycle Inventory (LCI)?

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What is the Difference Between Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) and Life Cycle Inventory (LCI)?

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LCA involves an assessment of the environmental impacts of the material and energy flows through the product system. The LCI does not comprise this impact assessment step, but only the list of material and energy flows. Additionally, it is common practice to provide LCI data for a single industrial production process as opposed to the whole product system from raw materials to product to waste. These partial studies are often called ‘from cradle to gate’, or eco-profiles.