APEAL, the Association of Producers of Steel for Packaging, has announced that its tinplate Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) data has been quality-reviewed and is now accessible from the European Reference Life Cycle Database (ELCD).
Allowing simple web-based access to high quality life-cycle data from reliable sources, the ELCD is a new database available from the European Platform in Life Cycle Assessment, launched by the European Commission on 6 February 2014.
APEAL says the high quality of its tinplate dataset is assured by the International Life Cycle Database (ILCD) entry-level requirements, which have been established to guarantee a certain level of documentation and methodological consistency among datasets and coherence.
Alexander Mohr, secretary general of APEAL – a federation of four multi-national producers of steel for packaging (ArcelorMittal, Tata Steel Packaging, ThyssenKrupp Rasselstein, and U. S. Steel Košice) – says: “Publication of APEAL’s LCI dataset on this platform confirms it as the dataset of reference for steel packaging across Europe.
“Contributing our data to this network will improve the understanding of steel for packaging’s environmental credentials, notably that the steel for packaging industry in Europe has lowered its global warming potential (mainly CO2 emissions) by 9% over two years.”
The aim of the ELCD network is described as threefold: to increase confidence in the quality of life-cycle data; to reduce costs for life-cycle analysis; and ultimately to allow all types of businesses and government bodies to effectively assess the environmental credentials of organisations and materials and make more informed decisions when it comes to policy-making and purchasing.
www.apeal.org/en/life-cycle-thinking/lcas
