How the Dutch Public Lighting Sector (OVL) goes circular with the ECI
There is a rapidly growing need to make sustainability and circularity transparent and measurable. As a result, circularity has become an important theme on the agenda of the Government of The Netherlands. The ambition? To achieve a completely circular economy in the Netherlands by 2050. But how do you get there? Futureproof construction: LCA and […]
5 Steps to Get Suppliers On Board With Sustainability
It has become clear that the role of supply chains on companies’ environmental impact is often very high. Up to a point, where 90% of your total environmental footprint can occur in said supply chains. This impact percentage from your supply chain might seem impressive – but it also opens up many opportunities for substantial […]
Carbon Offsetting: The Do’s & Dont’s To Ensure Your Carbon Offset Is Credible
*This article was created with the help of Alessandra Souroujon from ClimateSeed. Who hasn’t heard of reducing carbon emissions by now, has been living under a rock for the past 6 years. According to the Paris Agreement, we have to halve our carbon footprint by 2030 and become completely carbon neutral in 2050. Over the […]
What is Ecoinvent? Meet the LCI Database
Ecoinvent is the World’s leading LCI database containing over 16.000 unique datasets. The datasets in ecoinvent cover a wide array of products, services and processes, from building materials to food and from resource extraction to waste management. Ecoinvent is widely considered as the largest, most consistent and most transparent database on the market. How Does […]
Renewaballs have a 29% lower environmental footprint than regular tennis balls: this is how they do it
Positive environmental impact can be achieved through even the smallest of items- especially if the sum of these items is significant. This is exactly the case when it comes to tennis balls. Annually, 5,5 million Dutch tennis balls end up in incinerators. Imagine the positive effect if those 5,5 million tennis balls would be properly […]
The EU’s Green Deal & Taxonomy Are a Big Deal: Prepare for LCA’s
The European Green Deal The European Green Deal was presented by the end of 2019, and slowly rolled out and introduced throughout the EU in 2020. The European Green Deal can be described as the following: “The European Green Deal provides a roadmap with actions to boost the efficient use of resources by moving to […]
The revised EPD standard ‘EN15804 +A2’: What’s going to change?
What’s the EN15804? To understand this revised standard of the EN15804, it’s useful to first know what this norm initially entails. The EN15804 standard initiated by the EU in 2012, defines how- especially construction- companies should go about creating their Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs). The standard is important as it makes sure that the EPDs […]
Real vs. Fake Trees: How Sustainable is Your Christmas Tree?
Christmas Tree Graveyards Every year when the Christmas excitement starts (which somehow seems to be earlier and earlier every year, but I’m not complaining) I start thinking about all the Christmas trees that one can see on the streets around New Year. Quite literally; it looks like a Christmas tree graveyard as soon as the […]
Treating CO₂ as waste: How Two Drifters Distillery Became Carbon-Negative
Meet Two Drifters. Two Drifters is one of the most ambitious projects in the spirits industry. We love it. Because when Two Drifters found out that rum could be a viable business for them- they not only deep-dived into the impact of their operations. They designed them to be carbon negative from the ground up. Putting […]
The Hidden Water Footprints In Your Supply Chain
Water is important Undeniable truth right? And the funny thing is, that although 70.9% of our world is covered in water, only 0.03% of this water is actually suitable for our consumption. “However, this 0.03% of water is crucial for us humans. It is not only the most important means for us to survive but […]
