Environment - Life Cycle Assessment

The ARPRO® Life Cycle Assessment

The ARPRO® LCA evaluates the environmental impact of the production, use and disposal of a typical ARPRO® seat-core. 

Life cycle assessment improves environmental awareness and performance throughout the production chain. The following sections represent a summary of the Life Cycle Analysis and what you can expect to find within the Report.

Life cycle assessment is the most widely recognised technique to assess the environmental impacts of a product from raw material supply through the point of use and to end of life. 

JSP has followed the internationally agreed procedure for performing a life cycle analysis, using the ISO 14040 environmental management standards.

In order to be ISO-compliant the study requires an independently-managed, approved protocol to be followed and peer-reviewed by a second, independent life cycle assessment expert. This methodology is both rigorous and comprehensive

The key findings of the report are:

• Calculating global warming potential for an ARPRO® seat-core shows an environmental benefit to impact ratio of 12:1.
• An environmental saving of nearly 16 million tonnes of CO2(e) could be achieved.
• Just changing the seat enables net reduction in CO2(e) of 2.65 g/km, over 13 per cent of the 2012 EU target reduction.
• CO2(e) savings result from the ability to deliver component weight reductions of up to 35 percent.

Results from each stage of production, use and end-of life are reported for all the following categories in order to understand the impacts over a widely-used range of measures. These measures are then quantified as equivalents of well-understood environmental impacts.