Environmental footprinting with USEtox® webinar

In collaboration with ADEME (French Environment and Energy Management Agency) & CYCLECO

Environmental footprinting with USEtox®

Free Version 2.0 Kick Off Webinar

3 November 2014 – 2 pm (Brussels time)

Environmental Footprinting with USEtox® provides a database of new or updated characterization factors for more than 7000 substances based on the USEtox® model.

A full update of the ecotoxicity data was performed for all USEtox® substances, and a comparison function enables to compare initial USEtox® factors and the new updated factors, understanding the main causes of differences. The database is now synchronized with REACH and every twelve months, a new series of characterization factors is produced following REACH evolution.

Key points concerning Environmental Footprinting with USEtox®:

• The new characterization factors database is available in ILCD format.
• New characterization factors for metals are based on the most recent publications from Gandhi and Dong.
• The online software details each parameter that is used for the calculation and also enables to vary each parameter in order to test how far the characterization factors are affected.
• An administrator supports the use of the software, ensuring the qualitative improvement of the data.
• Each user can test its own parameters data and propose to improve existing data for the next update.
• For researchers, a version of the software also enables to change the landscape parameters in order to test another continent or a different area.
• Most recent database developments relate to ecotoxicity, however the human health part of USEtox® is also implemented in the software but the characterization factors database is not updated. It is anyway possible to test how a change in parameters affects a characterization factor.
• The platform offers a full transparency and a complete traceability of the data used for the calculation of the characterization factors.

A free software platform and complete database will be presented during this webinar.

Please find the webinar’s agenda below:

Part 1: Presentation of Environmental Footprinting with USEtox®
1- Introduction of the USEtox® model (2-2:05 pm)
2- Applying USEtox®  for research purposes (2:05-2:10 pm)
3- Applying USEtox® for ecotoxicity footprint calculation (2:10-2:35 pm)
4- New inputs for facilitating ecotoxicity footprinting with USEtox® (2:35-3:00 pm)

Break (3:00-3:15 pm)

Part 2: Ecotoxicity Footprint with USEtox® in practice
1- Training on USEtox® for ecotoxicity footprinting (3:15-3:35 pm)
2- Software & library database presentation (3:35-4:00 pm)

Break (4:00-4:15 pm)

Part 3: Individual testing of the software and library platform V 2.0 with Cycleco’s support (4:15-5:   pm)

Please click here to register and get access to the webinar.

To access the USEtox® footprinting platform: www.usetox.tools4env.com. Please note that you can set up a free access and test the platform (click on Free access, create an account).

To contact us: usetox@tools4env.com