Means considering all potential impacts of all activities and outcomes associated with the production and consumption of plastics, including raw material extraction and processing (for plastics: refining; cracking; polymerization), design and manufacturing, packaging, distribution, use and reuse, maintenance and end of life management, including segregation, collection, sorting, recycling, and disposal. Source: UNEP, “Life Cycle Initiative”. Available at https://www.lifecycleinitiative.org/life-cycle-approach-to-plasticpollution/. * *This term was recently included as a working definition in the glossary of key terms prepared for the work of the intergovernmental negotiating committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment under the category 'Terms used in Environment Assembly resolution 5/14 that do not have definitions adopted or endorsed by an intergovernmental process but that may be relevant to the development of the instrument'. See UNEP/PP/INC.1/6.  The glossary links to the definition above which is included as a key term in document UNEP/PP/INC.1/7 entitled “Plastics science”.