Life Cycle Strategies sponsors AgriFoodLCA

The Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society (ALCAS) welcomes Life Cycle Strategies Pty Ltd, as a Bronze Sponsor of AgriFoodLCA, The 1st Life Cycle Assessment Conference for Agriculture and Food in Melbourne on 23rd and 24th November.

Founded in 2003 by Tim Grant, Life Cycle Strategies is a premier consulting company undertaking life cycle assessment projects, training, software support, and tool and data development.

Life Cycle Strategies is the exclusive supplier and support point for SimaPro LCA software in Australia and New Zealand and is charge of development and LCA support for the Packaging tool PIQET.

“All our clients are trying to make sustainability real and life cycle approaches really help them do that,” says Tim.

“We attach scientifically sound evaluations to different options so they can make a fully informed decision and talk it through properly with their stakeholders.”

Life Cycle Strategies’ clients include, Australian Paper, the Vinyl Council of Australia, to policy makers such as EPA Victoria, Melbourne City Council and research agencies such as CSIRO and the NSW Department of Primary Industries.

Tim will be presenting latest developments assessment of soils in LCA and the treatment of pesticides applied to farm systems. Tim will also present on the Australian National Life Cycle Inventory Database (AusLCI). A major initiative bringing together stakeholders from industry, government and academia, AusLCI is a national, publicly-accessible database with easy access to comprehensive environmental information on the life cycle of a range of Australian products and services.

To be held in Melbourne from November 23 to 27, the 2015 Conference Series will introduce a Building and Construction Conference AusBuildLCA and an Agriculture and Food Conference AgriFoodLCA for the first time.