DATASMART 2020 Released
Written by Long Trail Sustainability, Senior Consultant, Shelly Severinghaus
The 2020 DATASMART update, released on October 26, 2020, includes 10 new processes, 76 updated processes[1], and 11 corrected processes. This includes new molybdenum data from the International Molybdenum Association. Electricity mixes for Canadian provinces and territories, the Canadian country average, U.S. eGRID, U.S. state and the U.S. country average were also updated to incorporate the most recently published data. Two new waste scenarios for general waste and packaging waste were created based on the most recent publications from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The LTS Method was updated with the latest ReCiPe 2016 version 1.04 method. Finally, corrected water flows were corrected for Chinese textile processing system level data.
Learn more in our What’s New in DATASMART manual and free webinar on November 18 from noon – 1pm ET. Email us at info@ltsexperts.com to register.
Interested in having your data in DATASMART? The process is simple. To get started, complete and send us the submission form, which contains your contact information and details about the dataset.
DATASMART LCI Package is a dataset for North American SimaPro customers provided by Long Trail Sustainability (LTS). This dataset was originally developed to create a North American focused dataset, based on a combination of US LCI v.1.60 and Ecoinvent v.2.2 data, modified specifically to be representative of U.S. operations. In an effort to continually provide more data, DATASMART has expanded to a larger dataset, covering more regions and industries, containing data developed by LTS and data submitted to LTS by companies and researchers. More information is available in our DATASMART LCI Package Manual.
[1] Processes updated directly. Does not include processes with updated documentation, processes moved to a new category or processes that have updated processes as an input (e.g. if the electricity production mix was updated, the high/medium/low voltage electricity processes are not counted as updated).
