Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter presents that Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a tool used to evaluate the environmental impacts associated with a particular product throughout its entire life cycle. LCA can be used to compare two or more products to find out which of them is more preferable from an environmental point of view. For a fair comparison, products should meet the same service requirements. Also, since different products have different impacts at different stages in their lifetimes, comparing them at only one stage can give misleading results. Their whole life cycles should be considered. A life-cycle assessment carried out has shown that replacement of glass fiber by wood fiber in Poly-Propylene (PP) composites used as car door panels reduces environmental impacts of these panels. Air pollution, especially emission of greenhouse gases, is an important environmental topic due to the suspected impacts of these gases on global warming. Replacing Glass Fibers and PP (GFP) with Wood Fibers and PP (WFP) can reduce major greenhouse gases significantly.
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