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From Raw Materials to Recycling: How EPDs Map a Product’s Life Journey
2025-06-17
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EPD
Introduction

Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) capture each stage of a product’s “life journey”, from raw-material extraction to manufacturing, distribution, use, and end-of-life recycling. Our EPD Tool supports this cradle-to-grave approach using ISO 14025 frameworks, offering 360° impact assessment and full LCA modeling.

How it works

1. Raw Materials: Data is gathered on inputs (e.g., hydropower aluminum), transport, and extraction emissions.
2. Manufacturing: Energy usage, waste outputs, and GHG emissions from production facilities are logged and validated.
3. Distribution & Use: Emissions during logistics and lifecycle use impact are estimated.
4. End-of-Life: Scenarios like recycling and disposal are quantified to complete the LCA.

How our product works and its benefits

We integrates authoritative databases, enabling product comparison and identifying hotspots where eco-improvements yield maximum benefit. Companies can visualize, optimize, and compare impact data across product variants.
EPDs that cover the full lifecycle enable better design decisions. For example, design teams may discover that while aluminum weighs less, recycling uses less energy than alternate materials. That insight leads to choosing materials or designs with the lowest net environmental cost.
Benefits:
Supports eco-design and material choice.
Validates recyclability and circularity claims.
Enhances brand reputation through transparent lifecycle data.

Conclusion

EPDs aren’t static labels, they’re dynamic lifecycles maps. With our help, businesses can gain actionable insights across each life phase to drive real sustainability.

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CBAM

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