{"id":100005084,"date":"2023-10-31T12:10:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T11:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.epditaly.it\/en\/?p=100005084"},"modified":"2023-10-31T12:10:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T11:10:29","slug":"epditaly-and-the-use-of-the-mass-balance-approach-in-epds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.epditaly.it\/en\/2023\/10\/31\/epditaly-and-the-use-of-the-mass-balance-approach-in-epds\/","title":{"rendered":"EPDItaly and the use of the Mass Balance Approach in EPDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We report that EPDItaly, a Program Operator and member of ECO Platform, the European association of all Program Operators in the construction industry, agrees with the decision regarding the <strong>non-use of the Mass Balance Approach (MBA)<\/strong> in Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs).<br \/>\nThe MBA is a technique by which, within a production process, flows with specific characteristics (inputs or outputs, e.g., organically sourced material or recycled content) are assigned to individual products obtained from that production process on a theoretical basis &#8212; called the &#8220;Mass Balance Model: credit method.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We point out that this decision will be cogent until a consensus is reached in ECO Platform.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Download the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epditaly.it\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ECO_2023_10_19_Statement-MBA-GOOs-1.pdf\">Eco Platform document<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-use of the Mass Balance Approach (MBA) in environmental product declarations (EPDs)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":100005086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100005084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-epd","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epditaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100005084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epditaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epditaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epditaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epditaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100005084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.epditaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100005084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100005088,"href":"http:\/\/www.epditaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100005084\/revisions\/100005088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epditaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100005086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epditaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100005084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epditaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100005084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epditaly.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100005084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}