Good practice list arriving from LCA4Regions

During these 2 years of project, the LCA4Regions partners have already identified 49 good practices for life cycle assessment and management to tackle different environmental issues with the aim to implement more holistic and sustainable regional policies. For the moment they are focused on resource efficiency, waste management and public procurement, but the list will soon increase! By the end of this year there will be new good practices on training and capacity building and evaluation and monitoring taking in to account life cycle approaches. Stay tuned and follow Twitter!

List of life cycle instruments:

CE: Circular Economy
CF: Carbon Footprint
EDP: Environmental Product Declarations
GPP: Green Public Procurement
ISCC: International Sustainability and Carbon Certification
LCA: Life Cycle Assessment
LCC: Life Cycle Costing
PPI: Public Procurement of Innovation
RE: Resource Efficiency

Region/Country	Good practice	Life cycle instrument
Navarra (SP)	Agralco S. Coop.Transformation and valorization of winemaking by-products	CF, ISCC, RE
Navarra (SP)	Biosasun- LCA from the production of organic extra virgin olive oil	LCA, CF
Navarra (SP)	Calculation of Carbon Footprint in services of the Commonwealth of Pamplona	CF
Navarra (SP)	New District Heating with biomass - EFIDISTRICT project	CF
Navarra (SP)	The carbon footprint of the activities of the Food Bank of Navarra	CF
Navarra (SP)	AgroPaper, a sustainable and biodegradable solution for the agricultural mulching technique	CF, LCC
Navarra (SP)	Healthy and sustainable menus in municipal schools of Pamplona	GPP
Navarra (SP)	Environmental clauses in the contract for Pamplona street cleaning services	GPP, CF, LCA
Lithuania	Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Electric and Conventional Vehicles	LCA
Lithuania	SoliTek: solar cells & panels	RE
Lithuania	Substitution of Hazardous substances in Process industry using results of Life Cycle Assessment	LCA
Lithuania	Environmental Impact Assessment of Renovated Multi-apartment Building Using LCA	LCA
Lithuania	Application of Life-cycle assessment in optimization of municipal waste management systems	LCA
Lithuania	Lithuanian’s deposit system	CE, CF
Satakunta (FI)	HINKU - Calculation of Carbon footprint in municipalities	CF
Satakunta (FI)	Resource efficient land use to promote sustainable land design and development	LCA
Satakunta (FI)	LCA for evaluation of construction works	LCA
Satakunta (FI)	Processing alternatives of biodegradable waste – anaerobic digestion, energy & biofuel	LCA
Satakunta (FI)	Life cycle environmental impacts of construction wood waste and packaging waste processing methods	LCA
Satakunta (FI)	Plastic packaging waste recycling	CF, EPR, CE
Satakunta (FI)	Separate collection and recycling of waste	CF
Satakunta (FI)	Nutrient calculator – tools for planning regional nutrient recycling
Satakunta (FI)	Biomass Atlas
Satakunta (FI)	Environmental impact of manure management based on LCA	LCA
Satakunta (FI)	Management of sustainable procurements at municipal level	GPP, LCC
Satakunta (FI)	Execution of energy planning for building procurement	GPP, LCA, LCC
Baixo Alentejo (PT)	Awards: More Alqueva, more value	CE
Baixo Alentejo (PT)	URSA - Alqueva byproducts circulation units	CE
Baixo Alentejo (PT)	FECA - Alentejo circular economy forum	CE
Baixo Alentejo (PT)	Promoting the valorisation of material from pruning vineyards	CE
Baixo Alentejo (PT)	Public Procurement for Innovation	PPI, RE
Baixo Alentejo (PT)	Purchase of operational leasing and other associated services for electric and hybrid cars	GPP
Slovenia	Energy and resource efficiency in hotel industry	RE
Slovenia	Life cycle assessment of different types of graveyard candles	LCA
Slovenia	Comparative life cycle assessment of alternative packaging materials for beverage	LCA
Slovenia	Green public procurement	GPP
Slovenia	Life cycle cost for green vehicles	GPP, LCC
Lombardy (IT)	Measure of energy retrofit and sustainable renovation of public housing building stock	RE
Lombardy (IT)	Optimization of the regional management of Construction & Demolition Waste through the LCT approach	LCA, LCC
Lombardy (IT)	Admixtures for bituminous conglomerates	LCA
Lombardy (IT)	Cantiere Green Protocol	CF
Lombardy (IT)	Waste management in Lombardy	LCA
Lombardy (IT)	Call for tender “Environmental footprint"	GPP, EFD
Lombardy (IT)	The Expo we learned – the legacy of a mega event in a circular economy perspective	GPP, LCA
Lodzkie (PL)	LCA in reducing CO2 emissions in the production of building components	LCA
Lodzkie (PL)	Environmental Product Declaration as an example of LCA application in construction	EDP
Lodzkie (PL)	Redistribution of charges for environmental pollution into pro-environmental investments
Lodzkie (PL)	Manuals of the Public Procurement Office on the use of green procurement and the life cycle	GPP
Lodzkie (PL)	Active support of the contracting authority by the Public Procurement Office through LCC calculators	GPP, LCC