Learn about whole-life cost, its significance, and how it accounts for total expenses, including hidden costs, of owning an ...

As plastic production has skyrocketed over the past several decades, wealthy countries have benefited enormously — from increasingly lightweight, affordable products, for example. The full social and ...

[This article was first published in Army Sustainment Professional Bulletin, which was then called Army Logistician, volume 3, number 2 (March–April 1971), pages 12–15, 42–43. The text, including any ...

The life-cycle value and cost of commercial trucks has always been an important measuring stick for fleets. But with high-dollar emission control technology on the horizon for Class 8 trucks in 2007, ...

An independent standards development organization has verified the findings of an eco-efficiency analysis (EEA) of asphalt pavement technologies, which shows microsurfacing to be more economical and ...

Cost planning for newer engine types can be complicated by their lack of global fleet hours and reliability data. Credit: Laure Lemeille/AFI KLM E&M Life-cycle cost management of widebody engines may ...

There are “costs of life” that mechanical physics cannot calculate. A clear example is the energy required to keep specific ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. As plastic production has skyrocketed over the past several decades, wealthy ...