Processes innovation and life cycle assessment

Life cycle assessment is one of several tools to help in decision-making and as a part of management and processes innovation, becoming ever more important in the competitive market. Life cycle interpretation is a systematic procedure to identify, check and evaluate informationfrom the life cycle inventory analysis ofa product system. The article focuses on LCA as a tool for environment protection and processes innovation. Integrated environmental management integrates the requirements of environmental legislation; the EC eco-audit regulation;LCA as a tool to continual improvement cycle and with processes innovation the need to save money in the processes via reduced resources and utility costs.