Troy A. Hottle

TL;DR: The goal of guiding innovation toward beneficial social and environmental outcomes referred to in the growing literature as responsible research and innovation (RRI) is intuitively worthwhile but lacks practicable tools for implementation One potentially useful tool is Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), which is a comprehensive framework used to evaluate the environmental impacts of products, processes, and technologies.

TL;DR: Of the seven waste management scenarios assessed, the recycling scenarios provide the greatest reductions in CO2 eq.

TL;DR: The share of life-cycle impacts between the production and use phase for vehicles is likely to shift away from the use phase with increasing efficiency and with reduced light-duty vehicle GFIG emissions standards, as shown in the example comparison in Fig. 1.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors describe the development of cradle-to-gate inventories for U.S. ready-mix concrete and gate-togate inventory for portland cement production technologies, providing baselines for the environmental releases associated with concrete that is used for major infrastructure projects.