LCM 2015

As stated by the own organization: The Life Cycle Management conferences are established as one of the leading conference series worldwide in the field of environmental, economical and social sustainability. The unique feature of LCM is developing practical solutions for the implementation of life cycle approaches into strategic and operational decision-making. The Life Cycle Conference is for international decision-makers from science, industry, NGOs and public bodies.

This year, LCM 2015 edition was held in Burdeaux, France, August 30 – September 02. About 700 people were there to explain, listen and discuss about the most relevant and innovative case studies in the Life Cycle Management area.

For me, the most interesting issue of the overall conference was to understand the link between LCA and the every-day-most-fashion-concept Circular economy. If you are not talking about Circular Economy you are out of the solar system.

To summarise the relation between LCA and Circular Economy, here you are 5 tips:

• Circular Economy is not only waste.
• In CE society turns products to services.
• CE encourage solutions that make better use of resources and materials.. thus we need LCA to clearly evaluate the options and make good decisions.
• LCM streghtens the transition to circular economy
• LCA is the tool to shift to a circular economy. If we have the tool.. we need to know how to use it.

More info at:

• http://lcm2015.org/
• www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/