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http://dx.doi.org/10.7464/ksct.2012.18.4.440

A Comparative Study for Product Carbon Footprint of Detergent, Heat Insulating Material, Vacuum Cleaner (Korea, UK and Japan)  

Ju, Hong-Shin (Environmental Regulation Compliance Center, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology)
Yeon, Seong-Mo (WECOS, CO., LTD.)
Shin, Yoo-Jin (WECOS, CO., LTD.)
Kim, Burmshik (BAI (The Board of Audit and Inspection of Korea))
Lim, Noh-Hyun (LG Electronics)
Jeong, Heon-Chang (Aekyung IND.)
Hong, Eung-Pyo (SAMBACK CO., LTD.)
Publication Information
Clean Technology / v.18, no.4, 2012 , pp. 440-445 More about this Journal
Abstract
15 carbon footprint product (CFP) schemes, including Korea Carbon Footprint Label, UK Carbon Trust's Carbon Reduction Label and Japan CFP are implemented in the world. A CFP describes green house gases (GHGs) emissions emitted throughout product's life cycle and is intended to reduce GHGs emissions by labeling a CFP result on product. This study calculates Korea, UK and Japan CFP result of vacuum cleaner, detergent, packagin material in order to analyze the Korea, UK and Japan CFP standards. Our results demonstrate significant differences among then calculated results because of criteria, emission factors, etc. Therefore, there are many difficulties in providing various CFP results and the international standard and guidelines for product category are needed.
Keywords
Carbon footprint label; Carbon labeling; Life cycle; CFP criteria; Emission factor;
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