Addressing the product life-cycle

Answer:

The standard does not require organizations to address product life-cycle but rather to examine it and determine significant environmental aspects and establish operational controls for them. The controls should be appropriate to the life-cycle stage, for example, once your product reaches the end user, you cannot control how the end user will recycle it, but you can give some instructions on what is the best way to do it.

For more information, see: Lifecycle perspective in ISO 14001:2015 – What does it mean? https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2017/02/20/lifecycle-perspective-in-iso-140012015-what-does-it-mean/