Product Sustainability
Regulation, and the procurement teams of your own customers, increasingly demand verified product sustainability data on products: life cycle assessments, EPDs, PEPs, PEFs, PCF carbon footprints, EPR, PPWR, CBAM, PFAS free statements, REACH, RoHS, Proposition 65, and Digital Product Passports.
Our product sustainability experts and software tools (Theta LCA, EPD.World, DPP.World, OpenEPD Database, Scope-3 Database) help organisations build that data once, manage assurance and verification and meet customer requirements everywhere they sell, and then put it to work. That data then informs design, sourcing and pricing decisions that take cost and product sustainability risk out of products. From a single complex product to portfolios of millions of SKUs, we turn a compliance obligation into a business asset.
Product Sustainability Overview
We support clients across the full product sustainability strategy: understanding which rules, standards and regulations apply to which products and when, building the underlying data, delivering verified disclosures or regulatory statements, and using the same data to improve the products themselves. Our team of 100+ dedicated product sustainability experts spanning LCA, EPD, PCF, Scope 3 carbon accounting, toxicologist, industrial hygienists, data scientists and verification professionals works alongside engineers, chemists and material scientists who engage at material and process level. We’re supported by digital platforms that automate the creation, verification and distribution of product data at portfolio scale. We work across the full product compliance ecosystem – as well as supporting corporate compliance, we support compliance schemes and standard settings in developing the system that underpins…
Why work with SLR on your product sustainability?
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One dataset, every disclosure
Every disclosure a product will ever face, every EPD, every PCF, DPP passport, and EPR fee return, draws on the same underlying dataset. That means that each new regulation becomes a formatting exercise rather than a fresh project.
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Software-speed delivery
Our platform stack, Theta LCA, epd.world, dpp.world, openEPD and openPCF, automates life cycle modelling, verification workflow and data distribution. Portfolios of thousands of SKUs become as manageable as one, and the thousandth declaration costs a fraction of the first.
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Engineers who improve the product
Measurement and compliance is only a fraction of the value. Our product sustainability and material scientists work at material and process level, using the data to drive eco-design, material substitution and reformulation decisions that cut cost, carbon and other regulatory fees (EPR, CBAM, ETS etc).
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The whole product chain
We work with producers, compliance schemes, councils, governments and the trade bodies writing the rules, including leading the development of ISO 14025, ISO 14040, ISO 14067, ISO 21930, EN 15804+A2, PAS 2060, PAS 2090. Our expertise is industry agnostic, from Concrete to Pharma, from Automotive to Semiconductors, we understand the system of products because we operate inside all of it and have the expertise to show it.
Product Sustainability Capabilities
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Life cycle assessment & product carbon footprinting
Understand your products' impacts with confidence. We deliver ISO 14040/44 life cycle assessments and ISO 21930, EN 15804+A2, ISO 14067 product carbon footprints, from a single complex product to thousands of SKUs, delivered as full service, semi-integrated or fully automated through our platforms.
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EPDs & PEFs & PEPs = Verified disclosure
Create disclosures for your products' in the format they are accepted wherever you sell. Digital-first product declarations across different standards, PCRs, data standards (PACT, TfS, Catana-X, OpenEPD, ILCD+EPD) and programme operators, with third-party verification workflow built in, published, maintained and renewed so your declarations never lapse.
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Regulatory readiness & digital product passports
Know which rules hit which products, and by when. Horizon scanning and compliance roadmaps across ESPR, DPP, PPWR, EPR and CBAM, with product data structured passport-ready from day one, so one data build serves many obligations.
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Eco-design & Design Lab
Turn the data into better products. Through our Design Lab we help companies explore Hotspot analysis, material matchmaking and redesign support from engineers and material scientists, taking cost, carbon, fees and risk out of products with changes grounded in verified evidence.
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EPR & circularity
Design your producer fees downwards. Packaging data, recyclability assessment and fee modulation strategy straight to the producer compliance and collection system.
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Digital product sustainability
Product data at software speed. Theta LCA, epd.world, dpp.world, openEPD and openPCF generate, verify and distribute product data at portfolio scale, one dataset serving every declaration, passport and report.
Product Sustainability Projects
Our Team Includes
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William Paddock
Managing Director of WAP Sustainability (now SLR)
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Chris Howell
Business Development Manager - Product Sustainability
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Simon Gandy
Technical Director, Corporate Sustainability
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Maggie Wildnauer
Managing Director, Life Cycle Services, WAP Sustainability (now SLR)
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Daniel Witte
Director
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Marion Briggs
Associate Director - Corporate Sustainability Advisory
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Vicki Rybl
Director of Life Cycle Assessment, WAP Sustainability (now SLR)
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Lynn Bell
Senior Sustainability Manager, WAP Sustainability (now SLR)
Further Reading
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