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This document specifies guidelines and requirements for conducting life cycle inventory (LCI) studies of steel products reflecting steel's capacity for closed-loop recycling, including:

a) specification of the functional unit used for LCI calculation of steel products;

b) definition of the system boundaries used for LCI calculation of steel products;

c) evaluation of scrap in LCI calculation of steel products;

d) evaluation of co-products in LCI calculation of steel products;

e) reporting of LCI calculation results of steel products.

The application of LCI results, including life cycle impact assessment (LCIA), is outside the scope of this document.

This document establishes a common methodology for the calculation, allocation and declaration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) as well as air pollutant emissions related to any parcel delivery service.

It only covers a part of the entire retail value chain. The retail value chain usually consists of creating the product, storing the inventory, distributing the goods and making the product available for consumers.

This document includes only the distribution of goods but considers the entire value chain of the parcel transportation process flow, namely the collection and delivery rounds, the trunking and the operations due to processing and the physical handling of parcels. See Figure 1 below for a graphical illustration.

Key

C=collection depot (aggregation)

H=hub

T=transport

D=delivery depot (dis-aggregation/distribution)

Figure 1 — Overview of parcel delivery operations