Product Carbon Footprints at Packyard
What are Product Carbon Footprints (PCF)? What does the 'e' in CO2e actually stand for? How can Packyard support making your packaging more sustainable?
Joshua D'Hondt 
What is a Product Carbon Footprint?
Packyard can now help you calculate your Product Carbon Footprint (PCF)!
What can you expect from our PCF reports?
Our PCF reports include both cradle-to-gate and cradle-to-grave footprints. Cradle-to-gate is a standard sustainability term referring to all emissions associated with the production of goods. Cradle-to-grave emissions encompass this production-related output, plus all emissions linked to the end-of-life stage (what happens to the product once it is no longer in use).
What does the 'e' in CO2e stand for?
In our reports, you will come across the term ‘CO2e’. The ‘e’ stands for equivalent. This is because CO2 is not the only greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. Other gases have an even stronger negative impact than CO2 itself; methane, for instance, has a much greater effect on climate warming.
To interpret and compare the effects of all different greenhouse gases, they are converted into CO2 equivalents. In other words, the CO2e score represents how much CO2 emission would be needed to produce the same climate effect as a specific greenhouse gas (or combination of gases). Therefore, by using the CO2e score, our PCF reports account not only for the impact of CO2, but for the impact of all greenhouse gases combined.
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