Organizational Life Cycle Assessment of a corporate group

The work illustrated in this paper is part of a project of a multisector business group aimed at defining and quantifying the environmental profile of the production activities carried out by the companies of the group during the period 2020–2021. The approach used is that of an Organisational Life Cycle Assessment (ISO 14072). The paper describes the methodological approaches and the main results. Since some of the companies of the group operate in the material recovery and self-production of electricity from renewable sources sector, thus giving rise to avoided impacts, particular attention was paid to the allocation of end-of-life situations and the separate treatment of any credits. The results highlighted environmental hotspots and enabled the companies of the organisation to undertake actions which improved the overall environmental profile.