An agricultural farming company is assessing the environmental impacts (global warming potential and land use) of packaging and delivering its products at the doorstep of its residential customers through an LCA study. A semi-automated process powered by diesel handles the packaging process. The packaging material used is paper. Each package is of standard weight. A truck powered by diesel then delivers the packages. The consumer unpacks the product and disposes the post- consumption packaging materials for recycling. The LCA Inventory data collected represents the site average for the various processes.
Required:
(A) In the LCA study above, provide the following details:
1. Goal of the study
2. Scope of the study:
a. List the products and processes involved
b. Initial Flow Chart and Flow model
c. System Boundary (Draw on Flow Chart)
d. Functional Unit
e. Impact categories
f. Type of LCA study
g. Principles of allocation, if any
h. Data quality requirements
i. Critical Review needed

5. profit maximization and shutting down in the short run suppose that the market for polos is a competitive market. the following graph shows the daily cost curves of a firm operating in this market. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 price (dollars per polo) quantity (thousands of polos) mc atc avc for each price in the following table, calculate the firm's optimal quantity of units to produce, and determine the profit or loss if it produces at that quantity, using the data from the previous graph to identify its total variable cost. assume that if the firm is indifferent between producing and shutting down, it will produce. (hint: you can select the purple points [diamond symbols] on the previous graph to see precise information on average variable cost.) price quantity total revenue fixed cost variable cost profit (dollars per polo) (polos) (dollars) (dollars) (dollars) (dollars) 12.50 135,000 27.50 135,000 45.00 135,000 if the firm shuts down, it must incur its fixed costs (fc) in the short run. in this case, the firm's fixed cost is $135,000 per day. in other words, if it shuts down, the firm would suffer losses of $135,000 per day until its fixed costs end (such as the expiration of a building lease). this firm's shutdown price—that is, the price below which it is optimal for the firm to shut down—is per polo.