Using of Life Cycle Assessment to survey environmental impacts of products

Societies are going toward informed and proper usage of resources in respond to the widespread environmental problems. Value of terms like environmental friendly products and green technologies are increased among managers and users day by day. In this regard, Life Cycle Assessment method with the goal of surveying environmental impacts of products, considers all of the processes and materials used for building, using and after using phases of a product. The application of this method is increasing in the global scientific and industrial community, but in our country there has not been sufficient attention to this subject, thus this paper was written in order to introduce this method. In different parts of this research, first the development and completion of this method, some of its usages in different economic sectors, and the way of accomplishing its 4 stages were explained. Then some available software to accomplish this method was compared with each other. Finally, future prospect of Life Cycle Assessment was described, and it seems that this method is going toward considering component of sustainable development (People, Planet, and Prosperity).