From raw material extraction to end-of-life disposal, we quantify every environmental impact across your product's lifecycle — giving you the data to make better decisions, back up green claims, and win consumer trust.
Consumers and regulators are scrutinising environmental claims more closely than ever. The EU Green Claims Directive, the UK's Green Claims Code, and the Competition and Markets Authority are all tightening the rules around what businesses can say about the sustainability of their products. Phrases like "eco-friendly", "sustainable", or "low carbon" without substantiation are now considered misleading — and the reputational and legal consequences of greenwashing are serious.
At the same time, organisations genuinely trying to improve their product's sustainability often do not know where to look. They focus on packaging when the real impact is in manufacturing. They invest in end-of-life solutions when the biggest lever is raw material selection. Without a rigorous, science-based Lifecycle Assessment, it is impossible to know which decisions will actually make a difference — and which are simply PR noise.
The regulatory landscape is shifting fast. The EU Green Claims Directive will require substantiated lifecycle evidence for environmental marketing claims. Getting ahead of this now protects your brand and creates a genuine competitive advantage with sustainability-conscious consumers.
A Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) is a systematic, standardised methodology for quantifying the environmental impacts of a product or service across its entire life — from extraction of raw materials, through manufacturing, distribution, and consumer use, to eventual disposal or recycling.
Governed by ISO 14040 and ISO 14044, LCA examines impacts across multiple environmental categories, not just carbon. This includes water use, land use, particulate matter, ecotoxicity, acidification, and more — giving a genuinely complete picture of environmental performance. It is the methodology underpinning Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), carbon footprint labels, and comparative environmental claims.
Unlike an organisational carbon footprint, which looks at your business operations, an LCA looks at a specific product or service from a systems perspective — following the flows of materials and energy wherever they lead in the global supply chain.
We conduct ISO-compliant LCAs that go beyond box-ticking to give you insights you can actually act on — and communicate with confidence.
We scope each LCA to your specific needs. A full cradle-to-grave study covers raw material extraction, manufacturing, packaging, distribution, consumer use, and end-of-life. A cradle-to-gate study focuses on production up to the point of sale — appropriate for B2B products where downstream use varies. We also offer cradle-to-cradle assessments for circular economy product designs. We help you choose the right scope from the outset so the study is both rigorous and commercially useful.
The most valuable output of an LCA is not the final impact score — it is understanding which stages and materials are driving the most significant impacts. Our hotspot analysis pinpoints where in your product's lifecycle the greatest environmental burdens sit, enabling your product development and procurement teams to focus R&D investment where it will make the biggest difference. We translate our findings into practical design recommendations that your engineers and buyers can implement.
We produce LCA reports that are structured for multiple audiences and purposes. For regulatory compliance and third-party verification, we deliver technically rigorous documentation meeting ISO 14044 requirements. For marketing and consumer communications, we provide clear summary outputs and guidance on which claims are substantiated by the data. For procurement and investor queries, we produce executive summaries that communicate your product's environmental credentials without the technical complexity.
Our process follows the ISO 14040/44 framework and is designed to minimise disruption to your teams while delivering maximum insight.
We work with you to define the purpose of the LCA, the product system boundary, the functional unit (the basis for all comparisons), and the intended audience. Getting this right at the start determines the quality and usefulness of everything that follows. We also identify any critical data gaps and design a data collection plan to address them efficiently.
We compile a comprehensive inventory of all material and energy flows entering and leaving the product system — from raw material quantities and supplier energy use to packaging weights, transport distances, and waste volumes. We combine primary data from your operations with secondary data from industry-leading LCI databases such as ecoinvent and the EU's ELCD, applying transparent assumptions where primary data is unavailable.
Using established impact assessment methods (ReCiPe, CML, or ILCD as appropriate), we translate the inventory data into quantified environmental impacts across categories including global warming potential, water scarcity, land use, particulate matter formation, human toxicity, and fossil resource depletion. We present results both in absolute terms and normalised against sector benchmarks where available.
We interpret findings in the context of your business goals — whether that is substantiating a marketing claim, identifying reduction opportunities, comparing product variants, or preparing for an Environmental Product Declaration. We provide a clear set of actionable recommendations ranked by impact reduction potential and feasibility, so your team knows exactly where to focus next.
If you sell directly to consumers and make — or want to make — environmental claims about your products, an LCA is the foundation of credible, defensible communication. Whether you are developing a carbon footprint label, entering a sustainability certification scheme, or responding to retailer sustainability questionnaires, LCA gives you the evidence base to do so with confidence.
LCA is most powerful when used early in the design process. By assessing the environmental profile of different material choices, manufacturing routes, or end-of-life scenarios before committing to production, your R&D team can build sustainability into the product from the ground up — avoiding costly redesigns later and future-proofing against tightening regulations.
Major retailers are increasingly asking suppliers to provide verified environmental data. An LCA provides the independent, standardised evidence needed to satisfy sustainability questionnaires, enter preferred supplier schemes, and demonstrate alignment with retailer net zero commitments. For procurement teams, LCA data enables more informed sourcing decisions that reduce supply chain risk and environmental liability.
Book a free scoping call and we will outline the right LCA approach for your product, estimated timelines, and what data we need to get started.
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