Pickler

Daan van Hal

Daniel Andersen

The complete guide in mastering Pickler. Learn how to use the software and understand Pickler's results.

Getting started

A brief explanation of what Pickler is and what you can use it for.

What is Pickler?

Pickler simplifies impact calculations, empowering sales, sustainability, and marketing with data-driven insights.

Who Is Pickler For?

Who is behind Pickler?

Overview of Pickler’s compliance with Legislation, IDEMAT data, Calculation Rules, and Communication.

With what standards does Pickler comply?

Learn what Pickler is, why you need it, how it works and more.

About Pickler

From adding a product to calculation footprints and sharing the insights with your customers

How Pickler works

Pickler uses your product data to calculate impact, filling data gaps with realistic defaults for accuracy.

Collect and prepare your product data

Enter data in Pickler via form, upload, or API, then map it for impact reports and transparency.

Product data entry and mapping

Understand Pickler's impact reports, comparisons and scope 3 reports.

Put Your Insights to Use with Pickler's core features

Switching to primary data improves impact accuracy in Pickler by using real energy sources & consumption per piece.

Refine and improve your data with primary data

From product data to footprint: every step covered in Pickler.

Using Pickler

How Pickler automatically assings production methods

How automatic transport calculations work

How Pickler assigns the energy mix

Guide on using Draft and Verified statuses in Pickler: when to apply each, and verification criteria.

Draft and verified product status

Common questions

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)?

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?

Learn how Pickler uses a single standard to calcualte the impact of your packaging.

Understanding Pickler's calculations

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?

Common questions 

Become an expert with the Pickler academy

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Pickler's AI chat support

Need assistance with something in Pickler? We're here to help!

All ways of getting support in Pickler

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

Liability when using Pickler

Are you new to Pickler and would like some clarity on how to get support? Watch the video to find out more!