Carnegie Mellon
| Summary | ||
| Name of source | Carnegie Mellon: EIO-LCA | |
| Provider | Carnegie Mellon University. Green Design Team | |
| Summary text | A life-cycle inventory (LCI) database profiling the environmental inputs and outputs associated with the production of packaging | |
| Contact | green-design@andrew.cmu.edu | |
| Licensing | Free (non-commercial use) | |
| Language(s) | English | |
| Website | www.eiolca.net/ | |
| Access – data formats and accessibility | ||
| File type | HTLM tool (can be downloaded to excel file) | |
| Software needs | Web browser, Microsoft Office | |
| Contents – breadth and depth of datasets | ||
| Age | 1992, 1997, 2000, and 2002 | |
| Geography | USA,Germany, Spain, Canada, China | |
| Original Data Source(s) | Industry statistics | |
| Other Databases Included | None | |
| Life cycle stages | Cradle-to-Gate (producer price model) and Cradle-to-Consumer | |
| Modeling approach | Environmentally extended input-output analysis | |
| Emissions results | Total CO2e | |
| Number of datasets | +3500 | |
| Main topics | Energy carriers and technologies; Materials production; Systems; Transport services; Other Services; End-of-life treatment; Wastes | |
| Other topics | ||
| Data transparency – what metadata is provided for each dataset? | ||
| System boundaries | Yes | |
| Data Types | Input-Output | |
| Allocation Methods | Yes | |
| Technology | Yes | |
| Data year | Yes | |
| Original source | Yes | |
| Uncertainty | No | |
| Quality – is information provided on data quality? | ||
| Data quality score | No | |
| Quality assurance | No | |
| Standards compliant | No | |
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