"...what is an environmental Life Cycle Assessment? A Life Cycle Assessment can be lots of different things—but all of them should include an attempt to evaluate the environmental aspects of a product or a service in a cradle–to–grave fashion. There are LOTS of things that have undergone Life Cycle Assessments: jet engines, diapers, drinking cups, computers, remediation techniques, trash disposal. You name it. If you can identify a system with a beginning and an end, you can look at what it does to the environment from beginning to end, and you can (in theory) do an LCA study."

The mission of ACLCA is to build capacity and knowledge of LCA.
Environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a comprehensive yardstick of the environmental performance of goods and services. It is a powerful tool to influence human behavior and environmental outcomes through management and engineering decisions, public policy and purchasing decisions.