New SOCA V3.0 release – social add-on to ecoinvent

The SOCA v3.0 database, a social impact add-on to the ecoinvent v3.10 database, is now available. Ecoinvent already contains data to calculate environmental impacts and information on costs, which can be used in life cycle costing (LCC). However, it has lacked...

PLEX, the plastic litter database, now updated

The PLEX database is an add-on to the ecoinvent APOS unit database that has the aim to quantify plastic littering along the supply chain. The first iteration was done by Ciroth & Kuoame (2019)[1] and the latest update came about in July 2023[2], for ecoinvent...

ProBas 2 database now available for openLCA

Since July 2024, openLCA users can download ProBas for openLCA in its latest version, through openLCA Nexus: https://nexus.openlca.org/database/ProBas. This database from the German Environment Agency (UmweltbBundesamt) includes datasets on energy, materials &...