A participatory web-based environmental load estimation and labeling system
Haruhiro Fujita, Koji Okuhara, Hiroshi Tsuda, Hiroe Tsubaki · 2012
With a participatory web-based environmental load estimation and labeling system, enterprises can make substantial benefit, by choosing less environmental load materials, energy use and waste disposal, leading to less environmental load labeled products. The system estimates CO2, SOx, NOx, DOD and other environmental loads, under given scenarios of selected row materials (intermediate products), energy use and waste disposal, retrieving pre-labeled environmental loads of selected materials. The credibility criteria of the estimation were set in the system, as guidelines of assessment accuracy and reliability of data source. The system assigns a unique ID with an electronic authentication and discloses environmental loads of every material, product, service and disposal, as an environmental label, when the participating enterprises register actual products or services for the labeling. It enables to trace back the labels, throughout the supply, production, consumption and disposal chain. The system leads to less environmental load production, hence a global environment-conscious society.