Life Cycle Assessment

Product life cycle of Bag-in-Box - a few facts

• The Rapak LCA was independently undertaken by the Sustainability Consulting Team at Pira International.
• The Rapak LCA compared bag-in-box with the most common alternative packaging formats in nine product categories.
• In each case, the different formats were adjusted to suit a common pack size and their environmental impacts were measured across 10 specific categories.
• Bag-in-box was found to be environmentally competitive with and in many cases superior to the alternative packaging formats.

The product life cycle

Two LCA standards ISO14040 - General concepts of LCA ISO14041 - Goal and scope ISO14042 - Impact assessment ISO14043 - Interpretation ISO14044 - More detailed version However... Almost all recommendations and guidelines are dependant on the goal and scope of the LCA