Low toxicity and emissions materials
Baseline strategy · No scoreIt reduces hazardous substances and domestic emissions during manufacture, installation, use, maintenance and end of life.
How it works
It reduces hazardous substances and domestic emissions during manufacture, installation, use, maintenance and end of life.
It considers materials and components throughout extraction, manufacture, transport, use, maintenance and recovery to conserve value and reduce impacts.
When does it make sense?
- Before you specify or purchase materials and products
- Where functionally comparable alternatives exist
- With life cycle data and a realistic maintenance and end-of-use plan
How to apply it
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Defining what needs resolves "low toxicity and emissions materials" and establishing a baseline situation.
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Compare alternatives and adapt design to climate, use, regulation, affected people and available resources.
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Apply with clear responsibilities, check the actual result and correct unwanted effects.
Potential benefits
Lower carbon life cycle
Less extraction and toxicity
More retained value
Limitations and precautions
- The result depends on context, design, execution and how it is used and maintained.
- An isolated label does not replace the comparison of the entire system.
- Durability, security, quantity used and end-of-life scenario can change the result.
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