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CSWA SUSTAINABILITY EXAM NEWEST 2025/2026 ACTUAL EXAM
WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(100% VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+| ||PROFESSOR
VERIFIED||
One of the most popular tools of this type is the Lifecycle Design
Strategies (or LiDS) Wheel, also known as the - ANSWER-
Ecodesign Strategies wheel. It was developed as a part of the
United Nations Environment Programme by Hans Brezet and
Carolien van Hemel Brezet as a way to evaluate how well a
product design reflects the application of eight ecodesign
strategies, especially relative to alternative designs.
Conceptual Life Cycle Thinking and the Three Choices -
ANSWER-1. Impacts - Any, although not always broken out into
specifics
2. Scope - All life cycle stages
3. Metrics - Generally scores
Life Cycle Assessment Abrivation - ANSWER-(LCA)
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Life Cycle Assessment - ANSWER-Describes the process of
evaluating the environmental impacts of a product at each stage
of its life and overall.
Post-Consumer Recycled Abrivation - ANSWER-(PCR)
Post-Consumer Recycled (PCR) Content scores range from -
ANSWER-for "unknown or 0-29% post-consumer recycled
content" to a maximum of 8 for 100% PCR content.
Such scoring systems try to - ANSWER-reflect the scale of impact
somewhat quantitatively, although the direct impact of changes is
hard to see. The scorecard's guidelines state that use of PCR
leads to resource conservation such as less energy used, less
waste produced, and less virgin raw material extracted, but does
not say how much. Therefore, it is not easy to tell whether it
makes a big or small difference changing from, say, 29% PCR to
30% PCR to get an extra point on the scorecard, something
product designers may want to know. Plus, a one point change
due to PCR use may have very different environmental impacts
than a one point change in raw material input use efficiency.
Results are in the form of points, not impacts.
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Qualitative impact assessments tend to be - ANSWER-quicker,
less expensive, and easier for non-specialists to participate in and
understand than quantitative ones.
Qualitative LCA and the Three Choices - ANSWER-1. Impacts -
Any
2. Scope - All life cycle stages
3. Metrics - Generally scores
. The Comparative Packaging Assessment (COMPASS) -
ANSWER-is an online tool developed by the Sustainable
Packaging Coalition (SPC), a project of the nonprofit institute
GreenBlue.
Drawing upon life cycle impact data from the U.S. Life-Cycle
Inventory (LCI) Database and Ecoinvent (a Swiss LCI database),
it allows engineers and packaging designers to model the impacts
of their choices while still in the design phase. It calculates
profiles of product life cycle impacts in three main categories. -
ANSWER-True
CSWA SUSTAINABILITY EXAM NEWEST 2025/2026 ACTUAL EXAM
WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(100% VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+| ||PROFESSOR
VERIFIED||
One of the most popular tools of this type is the Lifecycle Design
Strategies (or LiDS) Wheel, also known as the - ANSWER-
Ecodesign Strategies wheel. It was developed as a part of the
United Nations Environment Programme by Hans Brezet and
Carolien van Hemel Brezet as a way to evaluate how well a
product design reflects the application of eight ecodesign
strategies, especially relative to alternative designs.
Conceptual Life Cycle Thinking and the Three Choices -
ANSWER-1. Impacts - Any, although not always broken out into
specifics
2. Scope - All life cycle stages
3. Metrics - Generally scores
Life Cycle Assessment Abrivation - ANSWER-(LCA)
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Life Cycle Assessment - ANSWER-Describes the process of
evaluating the environmental impacts of a product at each stage
of its life and overall.
Post-Consumer Recycled Abrivation - ANSWER-(PCR)
Post-Consumer Recycled (PCR) Content scores range from -
ANSWER-for "unknown or 0-29% post-consumer recycled
content" to a maximum of 8 for 100% PCR content.
Such scoring systems try to - ANSWER-reflect the scale of impact
somewhat quantitatively, although the direct impact of changes is
hard to see. The scorecard's guidelines state that use of PCR
leads to resource conservation such as less energy used, less
waste produced, and less virgin raw material extracted, but does
not say how much. Therefore, it is not easy to tell whether it
makes a big or small difference changing from, say, 29% PCR to
30% PCR to get an extra point on the scorecard, something
product designers may want to know. Plus, a one point change
due to PCR use may have very different environmental impacts
than a one point change in raw material input use efficiency.
Results are in the form of points, not impacts.
, 3|Page
Qualitative impact assessments tend to be - ANSWER-quicker,
less expensive, and easier for non-specialists to participate in and
understand than quantitative ones.
Qualitative LCA and the Three Choices - ANSWER-1. Impacts -
Any
2. Scope - All life cycle stages
3. Metrics - Generally scores
. The Comparative Packaging Assessment (COMPASS) -
ANSWER-is an online tool developed by the Sustainable
Packaging Coalition (SPC), a project of the nonprofit institute
GreenBlue.
Drawing upon life cycle impact data from the U.S. Life-Cycle
Inventory (LCI) Database and Ecoinvent (a Swiss LCI database),
it allows engineers and packaging designers to model the impacts
of their choices while still in the design phase. It calculates
profiles of product life cycle impacts in three main categories. -
ANSWER-True
