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Product Footprints

Measure the environmental and carbon impact of a product across its life cycle.

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What is a Product Carbon Footprint (PCF)?

A PCF measures the embodied carbon or greenhouse gas emissions associated with a service, product, or packaging across its life cycle. PCFs measure the global warming potential (GWP) which is reported as kilogram of carbon dioxide equivalent (kg CO2eq).

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What is a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)?

An LCA measures both the global warming potential and a range of other environmental impacts of a service, product, or packaging across its life cycle. Environmental impact can be measured through several indicators like water usage, land usage, human toxicity, eutrophication, and ecotoxicity (and many more).

How can Beyondly help?

Gain data to power environmental claims. Meet the growing demand from wider supply chain and stakeholders for environmental product and packaging data. 

Let our Resource Efficiency and Circularity Team measure the carbon and environmental impact of your service, product, or packaging. Beyondly’s data driven Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) services support businesses to quantify their impact and gain confidence towards environmental declarations and product development. 

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Product Carbon Footprint
Streamlined PCF

Life Cycle Assessment

An LCA measures the full impact of your product throughout its life cycle considering raw material extraction, production, distribution, use-phase, and end-of-life. Beyondly provide guidance collating comprehensive data inventories prioritising primary data and, where not available, secondary datasets. An LCA considers a range of human and environment indicators to provide a well-rounded view of your product’s environmental impact. Beyondly deliver LCAs in compliance with ISO 14044 and 14040. 

Product Carbon Footprint

A comprehensive PCF measures the carbon impact of your product throughout its life cycle, considering raw material extraction, production, distribution, use phase, and end-of-life. Beyondly provide guidance collating comprehensive data inventories, prioritising primary data and, where not available, secondary datasets. Beyondly deliver PCFs in compliance with ISO 14067. 

Streamlined PCF

A streamlined PCF measures the impact of your product thoughout its life cycle, considering raw material extraction, production, and distribution. The streamlined PCF service leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI) to bridge the gap between primary data available and secondary industry averages, providing a product carbon footprint output from the minimum inputs: 

  • Product name and declared unit 

  • Supplier location 

  • Destination location 

Beyondly deliver PCFs in compliance with ISO 14067. 

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Product footprints: A fundamental tool for business

In an era where environmental sustainability is no longer a choice but a necessity, PCFs will become an integral part of understanding and managing the environmental impact of products to meet environmental legislation.

The benefits of a product footprint

  • Enhancing your data can inform strategic business decisions, allowing for the substantiation of green claims, by providing in-depth, comprehensive results to share with your customer.
  • Hotspot analysis to support the research and development of products, and justify design decision making across the whole product, packaging, and service supply chain.
  • Strengthen your company's sustainability credentials, improving relationships with stakeholders.
  • Supports accurate calculation of wider Scope 3 emissions, considering the whole value chain.
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Discuss a Product Carbon Footprint with our team today!

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Although both services measure the carbon impact of a product, a comprehensive PCF provides a deep dive into one product, requiring data collation from across the supply chain, which can be an expensive and time-consuming process. The streamlined PCF service utilises primary data that is likely to already be available to businesses and AI to bridge the data gap with secondary and industry datasets. This can help to meet business demands for multiple product carbon footprint calculations, improve accuracy of Scope 3 carbon footprint measurements or where data is not available.

Beyondly’s streamlined PCF service measures the carbon impact from cradle-(raw material extraction)-to-gate (leaving the factory), while a comprehensive PCF can be conducted cradle-to-grave (including use phase and end-of-life). 

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