Corporations and consumers alike, share a desire to better understand and address the sustainability of the products they manufacturer and consume. However, product sustainability is a massively complex, multifaceted arena, requiring a corresponding diversity of approaches to manage and evaluate.

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a framework to quantify the total environmental, economic and social burdens associated with a product, service or event. LCA helps consumers and producers make sustainable choices mainly from an environmental and economic point of view. STAM has performed solid LCA for products and services, understanding the process, data requirements and making use of the results. Moreover, STAM applies systems thinking and LCA to assess environmental dimension of the circular economy, including both technical and biological materials cycles.