“An LCA only gives you so much of the picture. It’s not the be all and end all of environmental impact,” says Simon Hann, Principal Consultant and LCA Specialist at sustainability consultancy Eunomia. This is applicable to every product and material out there, but in the case of plastic there are myriad unquantifiable environmental and social impacts—some that are just emerging—that either don’t make it into an LCA or don’t make it into wider reporting. After years of inaccuracy and assumption, it’s time to put the plastic LCA under scrutiny.