Product Life Cycle Assessment to Reduce Health Risks and Envproduct Life Cycle Assessment to Reduce Health Risks and Environmental Impacts IronmentalLife cycle design is a proactive approach for integrating pollution prevention and resource conservation strategies into the development of more ecologically and economically sustainable product systems. Cross media pollutant transfer and the shifting of other impacts can be avoided by addressing the entire life cycle, which includes raw materials acquisition, materials processing, manufacturing and assembly, use and service, retirement, disposal and