Southwest Environmental Limited

Life Cycle Assessment for Amazon Climate Pledge

In 2019, Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge this is a green claim that on the surface allows use of the Climate Pledge Friendly label on listings within Amazon.

We can now arrange Climate Pledge Friendly Certification.

We can undertake, this work on a fixed price basis please call or email to obtain a quote.

There are two routes by which a seller, can show the green claim:

Carbon Foot printing and 3rd Party Verification

Behind the scenes this green claim, needs to be evidenced so as to ensure its accuracy this is done in two stages:

1. Doing some maths to work out the carbon footprint of the product. (We can do this).
2. Having that maths checked by a 3rd party. (We can use your preferred certification body).

The report that we produce is essentially a carbon footprint report, assembled along the lines of PAS2050 this fulfills the three content requirements for the Climate Pledge:

• Regular Reporting - We can repeat the reporting annually at reduced cost.
• Carbon Elimination - We will automatically make suggestions on how you can lower you product's carbon footprint.
• Credible Offsets - We will advise on types of carbon offsets, and the amount required.

Compact Design Certification

This is amazons own standard, created with a view to reduce the size of a product (whilst still providing same function) so as to reduce packaging, and shipping impacts.

Some examples:

• Selling concentrated washing up liquid that does more washes for the same bottle size.
• Selling sleeping bags in compression sacks to reduced size.
• Reducing air volume in packets of cereal.
• Remove water. Liquid soap vs a bar of soap.
• Lighter packaging. Can you use thinner card or corrugated card?
• Change shape. Square products fit together with less gaps than round ones.

This Compact be Design Certification, does still require third party verification, this process is called validation.

It would be important to keep an eye on life cycle impacts, whilst planning  compact, humans are very good at solving one problem, by creating another problem somewhere else. For example switching from heavy card, to lighter plastic wrapping could create waste problems. Think DDT, PCBs, and recently PFAS for example. All solved a problems, and simultaneously created another!

How Can we Help?

We can help as much or as little as you like. We can undertake the whole process for you, or we could just provide 1/2 an hours advice to get you set off in the right direction. You will find us helpful, uncomplicated (unless it needs to be), and motivational.

Please call or email, with details of your products. Over the last two years we have provided foot printing reports for chairs, detergents, oils, textiles, and building materials. To name but a few.