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Identifying the Environmental Impacts of iGii Biosensors through Lifecycle Assessment

Home – Case Studies – Identifying the Environmental Impacts of iGii Biosensors through Lifecycle Assessment
iGii, a nanotechnology engineering company, has developed Gii, a 3D carbon nanomaterial created to replace traditional materials like noble metals, graphene, and screen-printed carbon. It is easier to produce, more cost-effective, and better suited to modern manufacturing needs. iGii works with companies across diagnostics, environmental testing, and sensing to integrate Gii into new products.
iGii approached Anthesis for Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) support, as they wanted to gain insights into the impact categories in which they can provide the greatest alignment to their customers’ sustainability aims and identify environmental impact hotspots within their sensors.
In this project, Anthesis used LCA to compare iGii sensor impacts to alternative biosensors on the market in order to understand differences in environmental impact.
Anthesis worked with iGii to produce screening LCA models of 4 different iGii sensors using primary data supplied by iGii. Results were reported across 4 different environmental impact categories. The results were used to identify hotspots within the 4 different sensor types.
In addition to modelling the 4 iGii sensors, Anthesis produced screening LCAs of 4 alternative biosensors available on the market. This market analysis was then compared to the iGii results to better understand differences in environmental impact between iGii products and the alternative biosensors.
Anthesis provided iGii with a full-length report detailing the screening LCA results and comparisons, as well as an executive summary highlighting key takeaways from the analysis.
The results of the LCA showed that iGii sensors may have lower climate change and fossil resource consumption impacts compared to alternative sensors on the market. Anthesis supported iGii with recommendations on how these results should be communicated to iGii customers.
Anthesis used the hotspot results of the 4 iGii sensors to create tailored recommendations that iGii could implement to reduce their environmental impact. Based on these recommendations, iGii are now exploring changes that could be made to their packaging and raw material suppliers to reduce their impact.
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