Green / Carbon Labelling

If you manufacture products you may wish to display the embodied carbon value of those products to the consumer. This involves looking at every stage of the manufacture and distribution of your product using life cycle analysis (LCA) thus calculating the carbon produced. This process can often lead to efficiency savings.

The Carbon Trust publish free standards that you may wish to read. We can help with the embodied carbon calculations, which can be a time consuming process, as it involves examining your supply chain in detail.

For more information visit: greenlabelling.co.uk

The diagram to the left shows how each stage of manufacture, transport and disposal might account for the total emissions of a product. Before viewing these figures you may have considered the distribution to be the most carbon intensive part of the process, but in fact it is the farming. Which has the cuddliest image of all!

The diagram to the left shows how each stage of manufacture, transport and disposal might account for the total emissions of a product. Before viewing these figures you may have considered the distribution to be the most carbon intensive part of the process, but in fact it is the farming. Which has the cuddliest image of all!

The graph to the right shows the embodied carbon values for three type of potatoes. They all have similar carbon foot prints (Organic baby new potatoes being the lowest at 140g), but look at the percentages . . .  in use (light blue) which for a potato is cooking! the King Edwards produce significantly more carbon than the baby potatoes, this is probably due to the fact that the baby potatoes cook quicker due to a proportionately large surface area. So if you were to eat them raw the King Edwards would be the green option!