”Life Cycle Analysis” of flame retardant use for furniture fire safety

Life cycle assessment (LCA) studies aim to assess the overall environmental impact (energy and resource consumption, pollutant emissions) throughout the life of a product or service, "from cradle to grave". This enables the comparison of different production options or materials. However, standard LCA methods exclude the impacts of accidents, and so of fires. A methodology has been adapted to include the environmental impacts of accidental fires, and thus to compare the overall environmental impact of using or not using flame retardants in different consumer products.

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