{
  "id": 19432012,
  "title": "Simplified framework could make products' environmental impacts easier to assess",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/simplified-framework-could-make-products-environmental-impacts-easier",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-11T02:00:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-framework-products-environmental-impacts-easier.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Life cycle assessment is used to quantify the environmental impact of products and services and forms an important basis for political decisions. However, the necessary data is always difficult to capture completely. A study by the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI now shows that four established hybrid methods can be reduced to just two: a first step towards open-source software that could enable such…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}