Abstract
A social life cycle assessment is a social impact
assessment technique that aims to assess the social and
socioeconomic aspects of products and their positive and
negative impacts along their lifecycle. The focus is mainly on
the impact on workers and communities at large, where
production and consumption generally takes place.This work is
justified, mainly because there is growing customer/market
pressure on the state of the social and economic circumstances
of production and services for products like bio-fuel. Issues like
corruption, unionization of workforce, policies and laws in the
creation of bio-fuels and its by-products are increasingly being
recognised as important as they affect production largely.