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Pickler: What is it and how Does it Work

Learn what Pickler is and how it helps you calculate, manage, and communicate packaging impact and compliance data.

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Written by Daan van Hal
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Pickler helps packaging companies meet growing demands for transparency and compliance by bringing footprint calculations, regulatory data, and clear communication together in one platform.

1. Calculate your packaging footprint

With Pickler, you calculate the environmental footprint of your packaging using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), which measures impact from production to end-of-life.

Pickler’s Fast-Track LCA is tailored for packaging, aligned with ISO 14040/44, and independently verified by Normec Verifavia. It scales to thousands of SKUs while keeping every result transparent and traceable.

How you calculate your packaging impact

Pickler uses your primary data—such as material composition, transport, and processing details—and combines it with secondary data from the IDEMAT database, a scientific dataset containing environmental information for thousands of materials and processes.

If data is missing, Pickler can fill data gaps with conservative defaults, so you can calculate now and refine later.

Outcome

You receive detailed data on the total environmental impact (eco-costs) and carbon footprint of each product—ready for CSRD, PPWR, and Green Claims Directive compliance.

Improve your data quality

Pickler tracks the share of primary, secondary, and default data per product, helping you identify where better data improves accuracy and credibility.

2. Create digital product passports

Pickler lets you combine your footprint results with additional compliance data to create fully compliant and shareable Digital Product Passports.

You can add information such as recycled or biobased content, reusability, compostability, recyclability, and optional supplier or material-level details — all in one traceable passport per product.

3. Turn compliance and sustainability into commercial advantage

Pickler helps you turn verified sustainability data into commercial value. By sharing transparent, compliant footprint results with customers, you strengthen tenders, support their reporting needs, and build trust in your sustainability claims — turning compliance into a competitive advantage.

Key features:

  • Digital Product Passports – Combine environmental and compliance data in one passport that can be shared with customers.

  • Comparisons – Evaluate the footprint of products side by side and see how you can lower the impact by changing variables.

  • Reporting – Generate client-ready reports aligned with CSRD and ESG requirements.

  • Scenario Products – Test new designs or materials before implementation.

  • Widgets & Sharing Tools – Embed eco-scores or CO₂ data on your website for transparent storytelling.

By using Pickler, you can confidently communicate about sustainability, supporting sales, tenders, and marketing with transparent, compliant sustainability data.

Who Pickler is for

Pickler supports every team involved in sustainability and customer communication.

  • Sales: Provide verified data to customers and win tenders with transparent impact reporting.

  • Sustainability: Automate data collection and ensure CSRD and packaging compliance.

  • Marketing: Make credible, ACM-approved sustainability claims backed by real data.

The outcome

With Pickler, you work from one dataset that serves every purpose.

  • Measure impact — Understand and improve your product footprint.

  • Ensure compliance — Meet all packaging and sustainability reporting requirements.

  • Communicate with confidence — Share verified, data-backed sustainability information.

Pickler makes packaging sustainability measurable, compliant, and credible — via Digital Product Passports.

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