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Boosting Health Sector to reduce its environmental impact using an innovative decision-making process based on LCA/LCC (LIFE BOHEALTH)
Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jul 1, 2016,
Background
Healthcare centres and hospitals consume significant amounts of resources, particularly energy and water. For example, energy is consumed by medical equipment, air-conditioning and heating systems, lighting, etc. Water is consumed in the many sanitation facilities and during the rigorous cleaning of surfaces, equipment and clothes, which is nec ...
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Boosting Life Cycle Assessment Use in European Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: Serving Needs of Innovative Key Sectors with Smart Methods and Tools (LCA to go)
Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,
"""LCA to go"" develops sectoral methods and tools for bio-based plastics, industrial machinery, electronics, renewable energy, sensors and smart textiles. These sectors have been chosen, as the manufacturers show a high interest in making clear the environmental benefits of their products to customers (""Green industries"") and in prioritizing so they can reduce their environmental impacts. This ...
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CHEMICAL SUBSTANCE IN VITRO/IN SILICO SCREENING SYSTEM TO PREDICT HUMAN- AND ECOTOXICOLOGICAL EFFECTS (CHEMSCREEN)
Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,
The current system of risk assessment of chemicals is complex, very resource-intensive and extremely time-consuming. Because of this, there is a great need to modernize this process. However, this is not feasible without alternative, integrated testing strategies in which chemical characteristics are used to more advantage and where costly and time consuming animal tests are replaced to a large ex ...
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