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Do I need a life cycle assessment for every packaging item?

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No. Assessing the whole portfolio would be expensive and delay decisions. In practice, you examine 3 to 5 packaging types that account for most of the tonnage and cover the main material families, then use analogous cases to extrapolate to the rest. Marginal packaging types are addressed at the end, using parameters already validated. Our article on the first product LCA (in French) explains how to scope this selection.

Read the source article: Packaging eco-design: costs and lead times for PPWR 2030