Environmental Impact Analysis Through the Industrial Lighting Product Life Cycle

Abstract

Lighting products are essential for our daily life, but also produce heavy negative impact on the environment. To meet the demand of reducing the lighting products’ environmental impact, this research took an industrial lighting product as an example to illustrate the environmental impact assessment through the product life cycle and discovered the key stages which produce high impacts on the environment within the product life cycle. The assessment results are presented with indicators regarding ecosystems, resources, and human health, together with 17 midpoint indicators such as toxicity and urban land occupation. Based on the obtained results, some recommendations on how to reduce the industrial lighting products’ impact on the environment were presented while improving the products’ positive functions.