Technical Specification Development for Ceramic Tile Type III Environmental Declarations

Abstract:

In order to address increasingly serious global environmental problems and intensified international trade barriers as well as the promotion of production processes by enterprises for the improvement of environmental impacts, Type III environmental declaration has emerged in response to the proper time and condition and gradually developed into an important mean to solve environmental problems. This study, based on the principles and requirements stated in ISO 14025, takes ceramic tile products as the example to discuss about the formulation of technical specifications for life cycle assessment of the ceramic tile, in order to provide methodological basis and technical support for the formulation of technical specifications for the life cycle assessment of other domestic products as well as for the assessment of Type III environmental declaration. Acknowledgement Sources of project funds: 13th Five-year National Key R&D Plan “Study on Key Technologies for Certification of Green Products Used in Home Furnishing Field” (No. 2017YFF0211504)

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 993)
• Pages: 1481-1486
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.993.1481
• Online since: May 2020
• Authors: Yi Liu, Yan Jiao Zhang*, Chen Wang, Gang Wen, Shi Wei Ren
• Keywords: Ceramic Tile, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Product Category Rules, Type III Environmental Declaration

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