Pickler

Learn what an LCA is, why you want to use it and how it's the only reliable way of assessing a products' environmental impact.

What is a lifecycle assessment (LCA)?

Common misconceptions on LCA data

How Pickler sets a clear standard for fast, transparent, and comparable packaging impact.

Pickler's standard for calculating the impact of packaging

Explaining eco-costs, carbon footprint and the eco score provided by Pickler.

What Data Do You Get From Pickler’s LCA Calculations?

This article explains Pickler's commitments and limits, showing what we provide and where user responsibility begins.

Liability when using Pickler

List with impact data from Pickler's calculations

Data you can enter in Pickler

All details of Pickler's footprint calculations.

Pickler's calculation rules (methodology)

Daan van Hal

In depth articles on LCA and Pickler's verified methodology for footprint calculations. 

Fast Track LCA (methodology) and data 

This article explains why you need Pickler's impact report instead of an EPD

How do impact reports from Pickler differ from EPD's?

CO2 capturing is already taken into account in the materials' life cycle and biomass gets credits by system expansion

Can carbon sequestration be accounted for in the LCA-based method of Pickler?

The environmental impact per piece of the finished packaging is used as a declared unit.

What unit of measure do you use?

Pickler uses the EcoInvent as their default LCI for footprint calculations.

What are the differences between IDEMAT and EcoInvent?

Yes, sustainability Impact Metrics established a methodology to translate EPDs/LCAs to eco-costs

Can existing EPD/LCA be used in Pickler?

Why does Ink show an unspecified production process in Pickler?

Learn what scope 1, and 3 company emissions are and how Pickler helps you and your customers measure and reduce scope 3 emissions.

What are scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions?

Pickler's Impact Reports show both your packaging's total carbon footprint and its impact on climate change. What's the difference?

What's the difference between the carbon footprint and climate change impact category?

Why does the market average CO2-eq Idemat value for testliner score lower than kraft? And what can you do to improve it?

Why does kraft have a lower carbon footprints than testliner in Pickler?

This is caused by the benefits of electricity production when waste is incinerated.

How can end-of-life emissions be negative?

Can you compare Pickler's Packaging Impact Reports to other LCA/impact reports?

Pickler's consistent methodology and system boundaries for calculating the impact of packaging products enable product impact comparisons.

How we make fair comparisons with other products

What is the difference between the recyclability of a product and the actual recycling rate?

How come wood cutlery is inert in landfill (i.e. 0 emissions when 100% landfill is chosen)?

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