ISO 20915

Under publication (Edition 2, 2026)

Final production steps (up to seven weeks).

Will replace ISO 20915:2018

Abstract

This document specifies guidelines and requirements for conducting life cycle inventory (LCI) studies of steel products reflecting steel’s capacity for closed-loop recycling, including:

specification of the declared unit used for LCI calculation of steel products;
definition of the system boundaries used for LCI calculation of steel products;
evaluation of scrap in LCI calculation of steel products;
evaluation of co-products in LCI calculation of steel products;
reporting of LCI calculation results of steel products.

The application of LCI results, including life cycle impact assessment (LCIA), is outside the scope of this document.

General information

Status
: Under development

Publication date
: 2026-09

Stage
: International Standard under publication [60.00]
Edition
: 2
Technical Committee :
ISO/TC 17/SC 21

ICS :
77.080.20
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