End of Life captures what happens to your product after use — including recycling, incineration, composting, or landfill. Pickler uses regional disposal data to ensure your footprint reflects how your product is actually treated at the end of its lifecycle.
Data focus: Why you usually shouldn’t change the end-of-life values
Include the most likely region where your product will be disposed. Other than that, there is not much data to collect for End of life.
Be very careful with editing the end-of-life scenario and rely on how Pickler automatically uses IDEMAT’s scientifically validated end of life values for every material. These values reflect real waste treatment infrastructure, local recycling efficiency, and disposal practices — and are updated regularly.
Unless you have verified, product-level data, editing the EoL scenario can make your results less accurate and you can risk greenwashing.
Filling data gaps: When you don’t know the regional end-of-life location
If you don’t know where your product reaches its end of life, Pickler will automatically assign Europe as location.
This default ensures you can still complete your calculation without blocking progress. You can update the region later if more accurate information becomes available.
Adding end of life data to the form
Step 1: End-of-life region
Click the dropdown
Select an existing region from the list or click Add new to add new region
Enter share
Optionally: If your product ends up in multiple markets, you can add multiple regions. The shares must add up to 100%.
Step 2: Add additional primary data (not recommended)
Pickler applies region-specific data values for recycling, incineration, composting, and landfill rates. This means you generaly do not have to add your primary data here.
Only if you have verified, product-specific end of life data, you may enable End of life scenario to enter actual percentages for Incineration, composting, recycling and landfill.
Be careful when adding primary end of life data
Unverified claims can be seen as greenwashing and may lead to regulatory non-compliance. Use this feature only when you can back it up with real, documented figures.