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NAL Agricultural Thesaurus
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Concept Breadcrumbs

Fields of Study > sustainability science and engineering > industrial ecology > life cycle assessment > co-product allocation
Natural Resources, Conservation, Environment > environmental sustainability > industrial ecology > life cycle assessment > co-product allocation
Preferred Term:

co-product allocation

Definition:
Objectively assigning resource use, energy consumption, and emissions to identified co-products where there is no physical or chemical way to separate the activities that produce them.
Concept Schemes:
NALT Full
Broader Concept:
life cycle assessment
Related Concepts:
URI:
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/206630
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