What’s included in BioPak’s Environmental Impact Reports?

BioPak’s Environmental Impact Report includes: 

• Total carbon footprint – the total greenhouse gas emissions released into the atmosphere as a result of all the activities completed to create that product (across the entire life cycle). Carbon footprint is expressed as CO2-eq, a metric that translates all greenhouse gases into the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide. 
• Carbon footprint (per lifecycle phase) – a breakdown of the greenhouse gas emissions released into the atmosphere across each different stage: material stage, product stage, transport stage and end of life stage. This is expressed as CO2-eq (and the sum of these stages gives us total carbon footprint). 
• Total eco-cost – a concept that places a monetary value on the environmental costs of a product (note: this is not an additional fee in our products). The eco-costs are calculated using four impact categories.
• Eco-cost (broken down into four impact categories) – the eco-cost is independently calculated across four categories: biodiversity loss, effects on human health, material scarcity, as well as the more standard carbon emissions.
• Eco-costs (per product stage) – the environmental impacts throughout the entire life cycle of a product – including the material stage, product stage, transport stage and end of life stage. 
• Eco-score – an overall score based on the eco-costs model. There are 9 possible eco scores ( A+, A, B, C, D, E, F, and G) – with A+ having the lowest eco-cost per kg of material and G having the highest eco-cost per kg of material. These can be used to compare products in similar categories. 

Learn more about Environmental Impact Reports here.