Environmental Impact Solutions
Today’s consumers demand that goods not only be manufactured to meet quality and safety requirements, but be sourced and manufactured using sustainable practices that do not adversely impact the environment, community, society or economy.
In order to achieve this, manufacturers and retailers need to identify, measure and demonstrate the environmental impact of their business activities along the life cycle, including:
To help our customers implement a comprehensive approach, Intertek offers a range of environmental impact solutions which include:
- Training and Consultancy – Intertek offers both standard and customized product life cycle training and support services around eco-design, life cycle assessments, standards and eco-labeling. Our consulting services address environmental sustainability, life cycle assessments, packaging optimization and more.
- Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) – Intertek can help collect primary data about the resource requirements and environmental impact(s) of a product, process or service, which is necessary to conduct a Life Cycle Inventory.
- Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) – LCAs can allow brands, manufacturers and retailers to better understand the environmental impacts of their products during all of the stages of a product’s life cycle.
- Instant LCA Software – Instant LCA Software enables non-experts to compare the environmental impacts of products by manipulating key parameters that significantly alter the environmental footprint of a product.
- Green Leaf Mark for Consumer Goods – Intertek’s Green Leaf Mark can be licensed by customers to communicate the environmental activities and claims of their consumer products and processes.
- Sustainable Packaging Solutions – Intertek provides packaging evaluation to ensure your packaging offers adequate protection while meeting regulatory requirements. We also conduct packaging redesign assessments to improve functional attributes to reduce not only product defects, but also the amount of packaging used, to help lower transportation costs as well as environmental impacts.
- Think Green Initiative (TGI) – This environmental assessment and reporting tool enables factories and suppliers to evaluate, monitor and improve their environmental performance.
- Greenhouse Gases Inventory – Intertek can help your organization measure Greenhouse gases emissions of your own organization or within your supply chain through our global network of auditors according to international standards such as ISO 14064 or GHG Protocol based on the different scopes (direct, indirect, other emissions).
Our global network of locations in over 110 countries is fully equipped and capable of supporting you in identifying, measuring and reducing the environmental impact of your products, your packaging and your supply chain. Providing additional support services, Intertek also offers standard and customized product life cycle training as well as consulting services to help address environmental sustainability, life cycle assessments, packaging optimization and more.
We are proficient in delivering solutions that provide immediate environmental benefits, cost savings opportunities and enable our customers to bring more confidence on the marketplace about the products they sell.
Request more information to see how Intertek can help your organization with Environmental Impact Solutions.