Investigation of EU environmental policies from the past to the future in the LCA perspective

Levent Bilgili, Afşin Yusuf Çetinkaya, Sadullah Levent Kuzu Investigation of EU Environmental Policies from the Past to the Future in the LCA Perspective Introduction According to the First Law of Thermodynamics, energy can be transformed from one form to another but can be neither created nor destroyed. This law tells us that there is a great balance of energy in nature. This energy balance appears not only in engineering but also in all environmental, social and economic cycles. Humanity, like all other living things in nature, has lived in harmony with environmental cycles in nature for millennia, and there is no waste in any environmental cycle. The energy entering the system does not disappear, changes shape and emerges as another type of energy. The waste products generated during this change process are used as input to another system and a new cycle begins. After the 18th century, when industrial production began, man-made artificial products started to produce outputs that could not be used as energy inputs in any system by disrupting this cycle, and nature was introduced to a concept that did not belong to it: Waste. Waste generation is a part of industrial production and is a process that has the potential to cause great environmental damage if not avoided. Therefore, after defining the concept of waste and environmental impacts of waste, many studies have been carried out on a global scale to prevent waste disposal and waste generation. The….