In Pickler, you can add your own End of life scenario. This can be helpful, when you know that the end of life of your product is different than from Pickler's default scenario.
With custom end of life scenario's, you can get a more accurate calculation of your product's environmental impact.
How it works and how we prevent greenwashing.
You can assign custom values on product level, by distributing it over the four end of life categories: incineration, landfill, composting and recycling. You can do this via API, CSV and the form.
When you submit your values (save the form or upload CSV), Pickler will store the values first and will then check if they can be applied.
Pickler will use your values when they meet two requirements:
The new eco-cost is worse than the default eco-cost of the product. This means only downgrading is possible. The reason is that allowing a lower eco-cost, would require evidence. That's not in place yet in Pickler.
The end of life values that you entered are available per material. For example: you entered 10% under composting. Your product has metal in it however. For this material, there is no composting scenario, meaning it can't be handled.
For scenario products, Pickler does allow a lower eco-cost.
How do you enter new values
Via CSV
When you export the csv in Pickler (import&export > export product data) and open it, you will find a new column at the end. This column is where you can enter the distribution of end life per product.
Order is as follows: incineration, composting, recycling, landfill
You have to enter it using this format: 30;40;0;30 (this would mean 30% incineration, 40% composting, 0% recycling and 30% landfill) It has to contain four values otherwise it can't import.
When you leave the cell empty, nothing happens and the default end of life will apply.
Via form
In the form you will find a toggle under end of life. Clicking it opens a grid/table with all four end of life scenarios. These are empty by default (just like in the csv). Rules are the same: you enter the distribution like you want it and sum has to be 100.
So you entered data either via the form or the csv. We will first store your values and then check if we can apply the values.