Three factors that influence environmental impact and sustainability for porcelain include versatility durability and affordability.
Environmental impact of ceramic tiles.
An evaluation of environmental impact using the eco indicator 95 method revealed that the production of ceramic tiles by the medium plant has a greater effect on global warming measures producing 22 81 kgco 2 eq compared to the 15 89 kgco 2 eq produced by the small plants.
Tile is composed primarily of natural clay feldspars sand carbonites and kaolins.
According to the lca study the greatest environmental impact for all categories is in the manufacture and distribution of ceramic tile.
The environmental footprint of ceramic tiles.
Assessing the environmental impact on production of ceramic tile is also studied 14 15 while the american national institute of standards and technology nist developed a sustainability.
The environmental product declaration is in accordance with iso 14025 and describes the enviromental features of the construction of ceramic tiles used by ceramic solutions.
This declaration is based on the ceramic tiles pcr document version 08 2011.
North american ceramic tile including mosaic quarry pressed floor glazed wall and porcelain as defined by ansi a137 1 american national standard specifications for ceramic tile according to iso 14025 this declaration is an environmental product declaration epd in accordance with iso 14025.
Porcelain can be used to replicate a number of other materials and applications of them such as flooring.
By other measures the environmental impact of small plants was greater.
There is also a wide variety of beautiful non toxic glazes available too.