Ecobilan’s Waste Management Life Cycle Assessment software tool (WISARD) is a unique program to assist the decision maker to evaluate alternative waste management scenarios. It is used by Environmental Agencies, Local Authorities and by Industry to evaluate the relative environmental performance of alternative waste management options.

The Waste Management Tool will assist you to :

• model any kind of waste management system directly from a friendly user interface.
  WISARD allows to model easily alternative waste management including landfilling, incineration, sorting - recycling, composting and anaerobic digestion. Users can access scroll-down menus and select parameters by clicking on boxes. All scenarios are automatically checked for consistency providing guidance if problems occur.
• compile life cycle inventories using Ecobilan data, your own data, any combination thereof.
  Ecobilan/Ecobalance has one of the largest Life Cycle Assessment database with rigorous systems in place to ensure Data Quality. WISARD is provided with a core set - ‘Starter Kit’ - of data. Additional data sets may be purchased by the user as appropriate and the tool is customisable according to specific needs (region, processes specifications…) In addition, users can collect and create their own data sets either directly or by adapting from the data sets provided.
• perform analyses with two different levels of sensitivity to identify ‘data hot spots’.
  Parameters of the model have been ordered by importance so that two different levels of use are possible. Major sensitive parameters (e.g. the total distance covered by refuse collectors, sorting efficiency) can be accessed quite quickly on a first level by a non scientific user. Other parameters (e.g. the different products necessary for the maintenance of the lorries) are stored in databases that can be read and enlarged on a second level of use by engineers. However these products must be accounted for, in the detailed level.
• conduct life cycle impact assessment according to a set of different methods.
  WISARD incorporates all major impact assessment methodologies. This enables the user to calculate impact potentials using a variety of different published methods. Respecting that impact assessment methodology is the subject of much debate,(Being compliant with the ISO 14040 series of standards and based on the LCA methodology) WISARD provides the user with extensive help files and cautionary notes to assist with the interpretation of impact assessment results.
• report your findings in a number of tabular and graphical display options.
  WISARD provides the user with an extensive range of reporting options (from tabular format to a wide variety of built in graphical options). Results can be exported in a text file. Then the user can display and compare results from different scenarios in Excel, PowerPoint, etc…