Environmental Product Declaration (EPD)

Let’s Get your Product’s Type III Environmental Declaration Ecolabel Done.

From Green Allegations to Verified Assertations

The Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) is your way to present the results of a life cycle assessment (LCA) carried out on your products/services to quantify their environmental impacts. EPD (also called Type III environmental declaration according to ISO Standard) is a transparent document about your products or services that should be verified by an independent third party as regulated by ISO 14025. EPD information enables prospective customers to check whether the environmental attributes of your products or services meet their expectations and enables the green credentials of competing products to be compared.

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Step 1: Selecting EPD Program and PCR

International ISO Type III declarations require an independent agency, called the Program Operator, to oversee the full EPD development process in accordance with ISO 14025 guidelines. Each Program Operator publishes a general instruction for the EPD Program. The EPD program includes the basic process and procedures for the development of Product Category Rules (PCRs) and EPDs within its program. According to ISO 14025 the PCR is defined as a “set of specific rules, requirements, and guidelines for developing Type III environmental product declarations for one or more product categories.”

We will support you in identifying the appropriate EPD Program and guide your team in finding the correct PCR for your products or services and make sure that it will be valid at the time of the verification. A product PCR is a document that provides rules, LCA requirements, and guidelines for developing its EPD. If a PCR does not exist for the product category of interest, we can assist in its development process via communicating the suitable Program Operators.

Step 2: Conducting LCA according to the PCR

We will support your team to clearly identify the rules of carrying out the LCA study as defined in the PCR. These rules include boundary conditions, data used and system inputs. Then we will guide the process of carrying out the Life Cycle Assessment Study. For more information please visit Life Cycle Assessment Consultation (Hyperlink to the Life Cycle Assessment Consultation page)

Step 3: Compiling the EPD

One of the most critical steps in EPD development is transferring the LCA results into EPD reporting format. We will support your team identify and classify the information mandated by the reference PCR and General Programme Instructions and make sure they are compiled in the EPD.

Step 4: Verifying the EPD

The verification process shall be carried out by an approved individual verifier or an accredited certification body with knowledge and experience of the types of products, the industry, and relevant standards of the product covered by the EPD and its geographical scope. To avoid conflicts of interest between a consultant and the verification, the cost of verification shall be set up and paid between the company and the verifier. In case, we are not consulted in the LCA and EPD process, we can support in the verification process.

Step 5: Publishing EPD

We will work with you on the design and presentation of your EPD book and get it done according to the highest technical and professional standard to show the environmental credentials of your product to users in the best way available. Once verified, an EPD is ready for publication; this is done via the Programme Operator.