environmental life cycle costing ; environmental performance evaluation and benchmarking; environmentally preferable purchasing; environmental supply chain management ; extented producer/product responsibility ;external reporting (regulatory or voluntary ); and design for environment (DfE) were not being actively considered, certainly not at the mack .Given the availability of EMA data or a strategy to collect such data, the question arises about which environmental decision making tools the data could be linked to data Mack to provide the best possible benefits. A tentative answer is provided to this question.