New Waste Act considers lifecycle assessment

"For the first time in South Africa," he says, "legislation recognises what environmentalists refer to as 'life cycle assessment' (LCA) - the process whereby the total potential long and short term environmental effects and impacts of a product or service are evaluated."

According to the SA Commercial Prop News Watson said that most people have no idea where or how products they purchase were made or from where the materials used in them are sourced.

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