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SUSTAINABILITY LEADERSHIP
Environmental Product Declaration Forthcoming
has been developed during 2022 for Elcowire’s products including Low-carbon Copper with the market’s lowest environmental footprint. This footprint will be verified through a mass balance-based self-declaration according to ISO 14021.
EPDs are standardized documents for displaying the environmental impacts of the company’s copper products across its entire lifecycle. They provide a base for accurate environmental and climate calculations in customer operations. With the use of Low-carbon Copper products, Elcowire becomes a crucial partner for the customers’ achievement of their sustainability goals.
The aim of Elcowire’s EPD and self-declaration is to help clarify the environmental performance of a product from a life-cycle perspective, in a transparent, objective and standardized way. It will include not only a climate declaration, but are also detailing greenhouse gas emissions and acidification, as well as resource consumption etc.
Elcowire uses mass balance in its self-declaration
The Mass Balance calculations to be used by
Elcowire in the self-declaration according to ISO 14021 is an approach that enables manufacturers to increase the circularity of products without making complicated changes of their production infrastructure.
In a typical mass balance calculation, sustainable materials as well as other materials are mixed within the production environment, causing them to no longer be traceable directly to the source. However, by tracking the amount of each input material and the amount of product output, it is possible to estimate the amount of each input material that is used in the production of the final product.
The calculated emissions from 1 kg of Low-carbon Copper from Elcowire is 1.7 kg. This is equal to less than half of the global average emissions from 1 kg of copper.
When calculating the footprint, Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions have been included, i.e. all categories in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol with a relevant impact on the final product carbon footprint, from cradle to Elcowire gate.
