Environmental Impact Solutions: Products

In the current global economy, consumers look for environmentally friendly products and packaging produced by companies that uphold environmental best practices, creating added pressure for you to assess and manage your carbon footprint and environmental impact.

Whether focusing on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or the wider environmental impact of your products – be it water footprint, waste consumption or energy consumption – measuring and communicating your environmental impacts is essential to design your product, packaging and environmental strategy in order to maintain a competitive advantage and to meet market demands.

Many countries also have their own local carbon label initiatives that require the placement of environmental information on products. As a result, retailers, brands and suppliers need to understand the various requirements from country to country in order to collect appropriate information along their supply chains.

Carbon Footprint and Life Cycle Assessment  

According to the ISO 14040/44 standard on life cycle assessment (LCA) and/or the BSI-PAS 2050, Intertek measures the carbon footprint and/or the main environmental impacts of your product, material or equipment, packaging or service from the raw materials to the end use of the product.

Simplified Life Cycle Assessment 

Simplified LCA services provide our clients with a simple and cost-effective measurement of their environmental impact at product or product category level.

This cost-effective approach help brands, retailers and manufacturers to measure product environmental impact across a wider scope of their business.

Certification, Carbon Label and Eco-Labeling 

BSI-PAS 2050 Product Carbon Footprint and Carbon Reduction Label 

Intertek conducts your product carbon footprint analysis according to the BSI-PAS 2050 standard and supports certification against the Carbon Trust Footprinting Co. requirements in order to permit use of the ‘Carbon Reduction Label’ on products.

Intertek can help you meet the requirements of any carbon label initiative and accompany you from the LCA of your product up to the certification and communication with the carbon label in any given country.

ISO 14040/44 Peer Review 

Intertek can help increase the credibility of your LCA report by having LCA studies verified by independent experts.

Eco-Labeling 

Intertek can also provide assistance for eco-labeling, from self-declared type II environmental labeling according to ISO 14021: 1999, to communicating results of LCAs within an environmental product declaration. These declarations provide an eco-profile according to the ISO 14025 standard on environmental labels and type III environmental declarations.

We can help you in designing and/or verifying your Environmental Product Declaration (EPD).

Eco-Design Tool 

We provide an LCA-web interface for non-experts users to enable them to work on their product eco-design, and to calculate product carbon footprint according to various scenarios along the product life cycle, or to change parameters and work on the product or packaging eco-design.

Green Leaf Mark  

Intertek's Green Leaf Mark for products is proof that environmental claims have been independently verified and can be enhance the marketability of your product.  

To meet growing market demands, Intertek has extended the scope of the certification scheme to support manufacturer and retailer-driven green product performance claims through the same single mark and consumer labeling system. 

Our clients can for instance communicate about the absence of banned or restricted substances such as Phthalates, PVC, Bisphenol A, or communicate about their product’s environmental impact like carbon, energy use or water footprint, or on the pre- or post-recycled content of their products. 

Request more information to see how Intertek can help your organization with Environmental Impact Solutions: Products.