1. Background & project description.
ecoinvent is the world’s leading supplier of consistent and transparent LCI data of renowned quality. ecoinvent is a proud partner of the Sustainable Recycling Industries (SRI) programme, a programme funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and jointly implemented by the Swiss Institute for Materials Science & Technology (Empa), the World Resources Forum (WRF) and ecoinvent, through three interconnected programme components:
Component A – Life Cycle Inventories: SRI gathers and provides local LCI data for the assessment of agricultural and industrial activities through the enhancement of local and regional LCA expertise with the aim to provide freely available regionalized LCI data for India, Latin America, and South Africa.
Component B – Recycling Initiatives: SRI improves local capacity for sustainable recycling activities together with private and public institutions, as well as the informal sector in a number of partner countries (Peru, Colombia, Ghana, Egypt, India)
Component C – SRI Roundtable: SRI facilitates a stakeholder consultation for the development of sustainability criteria for secondary raw materials
ecoinvent is in charge of component A of the SRI project.
Through this call ecoinvent aims to subcontract the task of LCI data collection, dataset creation and submission to the ecoinvent database.
Fecha de inicio: 01/03/2012Fecha final: 31/07/2014
Estado DGI: En proceso
Instituciones Investigadoras:
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Cooperativa de Servicios Múltiples CENFROCAFE-Perú
Instituciones Financiadoras:
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Cooperativa de Servicios Múltiples CENFROCAFE-Perú