Recycling, close-loop economy, secondary resources

After the SETAC Annual Meeting 2001, Spain was again the location of a major event for the LCA community. SETAC's 10th LCA Case Study Symposium was held in the lively and charming city of Barcelona together with the second European Meeting of the International Society for Industrial Ecology 9 This report gives an overview of the 19 platform presentations of the case study symposium, which were supplemented by 27 posters. Recycling, reuse, disposal, and other issues of the end-of-life (EOL) phase of goods and services were the overall theme of the presented and heavily discussed LCA applications, a very timely theme due to ongoing discussions on national and international regulations for the EOL of products in many sectors.