maki – maki Consulting GmbH

May 15

Circular Economy Formula (CEF) – a new, inherently closed-loop, attributional substitution approach for LCA

By Marc in Report

A new way of modelling of secondary products (materials, energy, parts, …) as input to and output from product systems has been developed by us: the Circular Economy Formula (CEF). The basic idea of this approach is that everything that is kept in the loop, i.e. handed back to the economy during End of Life …

Circular Economy, end-of-life, Environmental footprint, LCA, Life cycle, maki, Method, recyclability, recycled content, recycling

Nov 03

Open Public Consultation “Green claims” PEF/OEF based policy development

By Marc in Policy

The EC is proposing an LCA-based Regulation to substantiate environmental claims on products&organisations, based on the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) and Organisation Environmental Footprint (OEF). maki is supporting the Policy Impact Assessment on this initiative as contractor, jointly with Bio Innovation and RPA. Stakeholder workshops on 16-17 and on 24 November 2020 (https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/GreenClaimsWorkshop) are part …

Circular Economy, DG Environment, DG GROW, Environmental footprint, EU Green Deal, European Commission, Life cycle, maki, OEF, PEF, Policy, Product, workshop

Nov 07

Eingeladener Vortrag in Ringvorlesung an FH Pforzheim, 17. Oktober 2019

By Marc in Conference

Am 17. Oktober eröffnete Herr Dr. Wolf die Ringvorlesung Ressourceneffizienz und Nachhaltigkeit, organisiert vom Institut für Industrial Ecology (INEC) der FH Pforzheim, mit einem Vortrag zum Umweltlichen Fußabdruck (Environmental footprint) der Europäischen Kommission. Die Zusammenfassung gibt es hier in einem Nachbericht zum Nachlesen: https://www.hs-pforzheim.de/forschung/institute/inec/detailansicht/news/ringvorlesung_environmental_footprint

Conference, Environmental footprint, European Commission, Life cycle, maki, Policy

Mar 19

Environmental benefits of recyclability – White paper with guidance, data sources, illustrative example

By Marc in Publication, Report

Recyclability and recoverability are the scope of EN 45555 (under development), following a mass-based approach. This White paper provides guidance on possible ways how to quantitatively consider in addition the net environmental benefits of recyclability and recoverability, complementing the mass-based approach. Possible data sources as well as a worked illustrative exmple complete this short white …

Data, EN 45555, end-of-life, environmental benefits, Life cycle, maki, Method, recyclability

Jan 13

Presentation at EcoBalance 2016, Kyoto, on LCA of Data Centres – relevance of use stage vs. production

By Marc in Conference, Publication

maki staff has presented first results from LCA calculations of a generic data centre, with the focus on the relative relevance of use stage vs. production. Typically a rather small contribution of the production stage is found for primary energy consumption, below 20%, although weaknesses in background data (clean room production, high purity materials…) may …

Conference, Data centre, ICT, Life cycle, maki, Product

Sep 12

Improved Umbrella formula (UF+) and improved modular Integrated formula (mIF+)

By Marc in Publication, Report, Uncategorized

After some improvement work in notations, grouping terms, and adding some more clarifications since July, we provide here an improved Umbrella formula (UF+), that allows by parametrisation to tailor a formula with specifc properties, including an improved Integated formula (IF+) – which we see conceptually as strong – but also several other formula. Access the …

end-of-life, European Commission, Life cycle, maki, Method, PEF, workshop

Jul 26

Umbrella formula for End-of-life modeling

By Marc in Publication, Report

Expanding on the Integrated formula, we here provide an Umbrella formula, that allows by parametrisation to tailor a formula with specifc properties, including the Integated formula – which we see conceptually as strong – but also several other formula. Access the Briefing note for free here: Umbrella formula

end-of-life, LCI, maki, Method, PEF

Jun 25

EcoBalance 2016 (3-6 Oct 2016; Kyoto, Japan) – registration open, special offer for FSLCI members

By Marc in Conference

We are proud to again support this long-standing and important international, bi-annual conference on Life Cycle Assessment and related areas with Marc-Andree Wolf as invited member of the International Advisory Board and as abstract reviewer. Members of industry, government and advanced research bodies and consultants from all over Asia and in fact globally will meet …

Conference, Data centre, FSLCI, Life cycle, maki

Sep 11

New maki staff publication: book chapter on Sustainable Consumption in LCA Compendium

By Marc in Publication

Get the chapter here (free download): http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-94-017-7221-1_13.pdf Marc-Andree Wolf and Kirana Chomkhamsri: From Sustainable Production to Sustainable Consumption. pp 169-194. In: Sonnemann G, Margni M (Eds): Life Cycle Management. In: Klöpffer W, Curran MA: LCA Compendium – The Complete World of Life Cycle Assessment. Springer, Dordrecht; 2015.

Book, Life cycle, maki, sustainable consumption

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