An increased understanding of the application of §environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) §methodologies in the microelectronics packaging area §should help in developing environmentally sound §product systems. §The aim of the present work is to increase the §knowledge of using LCA tools, methods and models, in §application to current and new microelectronic §products. A subgoal is to establish a better §understanding of how to collect data to be used in a §Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) and environmentally §assess the importance of the upstream processes. The §objective has been to...