Eco-costs are environmental costs that are not yet reflected in the market price of a product. Together with a sales price, they would form a product's "true costs". Eco costs function as:
Impact KPI: They measure the total environmental impact of a product expressed in €. Functioning as a sustainability KPI that should be reduced and enables comparison with eco costs from other packaging.
Prevention costs: Show the cost we'd need to make to invest in impact reduction and technical prevention measures.
The goal of eco-costs is to reduce pollution and depletion of resources to sustainable levels that align with the Earth's carrying capacity.
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