In addition, EPA reorganized the order of materials in WARM and made regular updates to various factors in the model using current data sources. They also include indirect impacts, including the collection, sorting and transportation of a material. The economic impacts include the direct impacts associated with the actual transformation of recyclable materials into marketable products. The update to WARM Version 15 includes economic impacts from employment (labor hours), wages and taxes. Prior to the release of WARM Version 15, WARM did not include potential economic benefits from waste reduction or alternative waste management practices. Desktop Central Processing Units (CPUs),.In addition, users are now easily able to see the production and end-of-life greenhouse gas (GHG) and energy impacts along with other results.ĮPA replaced personal computers with the following electronic materials categories: The main changes to WARM Version 15 include replacing personal computers with more specific electronics categories, incorporating economic impacts into the model, and updating the various factors in the model using current data sources. Users are still able to access the Excel-Based Tool (xls) OpenLCA database for WARM Version 15 (zip) WARM is now available as a tool based on a database developed in openLCA software, with versions available for both Windows and Macintosh users (zip) WARM version 15 was originally released in May 2019 and was updated in November 2020. Search EPA's archive to access versions 1 through 11 of WARM.

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