From manufacturing and supply chain to end-of-life management, we quantify every environmental impact across your product's lifecycle. Back up your sustainability claims with solid data, 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.
Some companies want to tighten up, but often don't know where to look. They focus on packaging when the real impact is in manufacturing.
The EU Green Claims Directive requires 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.
An LCA quantifies the environmental impacts of a product across its entire life, from raw materials through manufacturing, distribution, and use, to disposal or recycling. It covers far more than carbon: water use, land use, ecotoxicity, acidification, and more.
Governed by ISO 14040 and ISO 14044, it's the methodology behind Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), carbon footprint labels, and comparative environmental claims. Unlike an organisational carbon footprint, an LCA follows a specific product's material and energy flows wherever they lead in the 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. Cradle-to-Grave: raw material extraction, manufacturing, packaging, distribution, consumer use, and end-of-life. Cradle-to-Gate: production to point of sale (for B2B products where downstream use varies).
The impact score of an LCA is not the main output. The crucial output is understanding which stages and materials have the most impact. When you can pinpoint the greatest environmental burdens of your product, you can focus R&D investment where it will make the biggest difference.
Our LCA reports 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 teams, clear summary outputs and guidance on which claims are substantiated. For procurement and investor queries, executive summaries that communicate 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. We'll quickly 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 (raw material quantities, supplier energy use, packaging weights, transport distances, waste volumes). We combine primary data from your operations with secondary data from industry-leading LCI databases.
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 provide a clear set of actionable recommendations ranked by impact reduction potential and feasibility, so your team knows exactly where to focus next. Findings are always interpreted in the context of your business goals: substantiating marketing claims, finding reduction opportunities, or preparing for an Environmental Product Declaration.
If you sell directly to consumers and make environmental claims about your products, an LCA is the foundation of credible, defensible communication. Whether you are achieving B Corp status, responding to retailer questionnaires or devising a new advertising campaign, an LCA gives you the evidence base to do so with confidence. Win your customers over with the truth.
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. Avoid costly redesigns and future-proof against tightening regulations.
An LCA provides the independent, standardised evidence needed to satisfy sustainability questionnaires, enter preferred supplier schemes, and demonstrate alignment with retailer net zero commitments. Data to 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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