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Hello, It looks as though the original post for this thread was made over a year ago -- but I find myself with a similar problem: I have made my process and keyed in all its inputs, for simply a mass of 1 product as the output, and have saved it. Then I go to the next step and create my product syst...

Thanks Andreas -- okay I understand. So if I wanted to add the input of 1 kg of chemical X being applied to a farm, I would include both 1 kg of it under an elementary flow, and in addition 1 kg of it from the manufacturing part (and the transportation part for that matter) -- is this correct? Thank...

Thank you very much Andreas -- I had checked the wording of ISO as well. However, I was thrown off by the fact that almost all of my study's 25 specific agrochemicals are found under Elementary flows > soil > agricultural, whereas there are only generic chemical classes under Manufacturing > Manufac...

I am stumped at a fundamental terminology question. In an agricultural LCA, I am adding inputs to my process. However, such inputs can be found under different flow categories. How do you know which type to choose? For example, I am assessing the impact of an agrichemical from its cradle then it bei...