Sustainability
Make sure you know where you stand
Consumer, retailer and government demand for sustainable products is increasing. There is also a growing need among these parties for proof that a company is operating sustainably. Mapping environmental impact using a life cycle assessment puts a number on sustainability: your footprint. You have come to the right place for this at Greenhouse Sustainability. Since 2015, we have been calculating footprints mainly for the agri- and horticulture sector, but also for construction, retail and hospitality.Â
What do you get from a footprint calculation?
A life cycle assessment (LCA) provides you with insight into how sustainable your business or products are and helps you achieve future-proof operations.
Prepare for future regulations
The climate agreement mandates that we all must significantly reduce CO2 emissions by 2030. It is only a matter of time until all companies have to deal with mandatory tracking of their carbon emissions and reducing them. With a footprint calculation, you will be prepared for the potential levy and avoid unforeseen situations and costs.
Top of mind in the chain
Your footprint affects the footprint of your supply chain partners. When you can share your footprint with your supply chain partners, you demonstrate transparency and awareness. This makes you attractive to stakeholders, suppliers and customers.
LCA: methods
and calculations
Standard Rules
Category Rules
Category Rules have been established for different products and sectors at national and European level. In floriculture, we use the official European Flori Product Environmental Category Rules (FloriPEFCR) to calculate environmental footprints of potplants and cut flowers. For situations that do not fall under these Category Rules, we use ISO standards and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, among others.
Honesty is the best policy
We use standardised calculation rules to calculate your footprint, so you are assured of a valuable footprint calculation. Standardisation allows footprint certification, benchmarking and prevents greenwashing.
Impact categories
LCA involves different impact categories. An impact category groups several emissions into one environmental impact. The impact categories we calculate include: water, land use, toxicity and the best known, CO2.
CO2 equivalent
A footprint is often expressed in terms of CO2-equivalent. This also applies to your footprint calculation with Footprint4All. This means that greenhouse gases other than CO2 are included, but converted to a CO2 value. So to add up the impact of different types of greenhouse gases, such as methane and nitrous oxide, emission figures are converted to CO2-equivalent.
The way we work
LCA’s are supervised and carried out by our qualified LCA Specialists. Our approach consists of a 3-stage process:
Calculate yourselfwith our footprint tools
A Life Cycle Assessment is the only real answer to the question of how sustainable a product or company really is. Our professional LCA specialists can take the work off your hands and calculate the footprint for you, but we also understand if you prefer to do it yourself. We like to make it easy for you and that is why we offer various accessible online tools that allow you to calculate your footprint yourself.
Insight into the environmental impact throughout the entire floriculture chain, from production to end of life
The Flori Footprint Tool was created specifically for the floriculture sector. It makes calculating a carbon footprint quick and easy for everyone. This online tool lets you simply and clearly calculate the footprint of your company and all your products at your own pace.
Independently
& at your own pace
The Flori Footprint Tool allows you to calculate the footprint of your company and its products step-by-step, at your own pace. The results provide you with valuable insights, showing the hotspots across all stages of your supply chain - from production and distribution to usage and waste processing. You will also understand the impact across multiple categories, including COâ‚‚, water, toxicity, land use, and more.
Providing florists with insight into and control over environmental impact
FlorIT, which stands for Florist Impact Tool, was specifically created to help florists easily understand their COâ‚‚ footprint. With FlorIT, you can pinpoint the exact causes of your business's environmental impact while also identifying the best opportunities to become more sustainable. This allows you to work strategically toward a more sustainable future.Â
Are you interested in FlorIT or would you like to receive more information? Contact us.
Entry-level tool for calculating environmental impact
We developed Footprint4All to help any business quickly and affordably calculate its COâ‚‚ footprint. With our accessible Footprint4All tool, you can easily calculate your company's footprint yourself, no matter your industry.
Quick and easy
insight in the carbon footprint of your company
Quick and easy insight in the carbon footprint of your company
You will gain insight into your footprint based on key factors like heating, electricity, business travel, water usage, and waste.
Once the calculation is complete, you'll immediately see the hotspots for COâ‚‚ emissions, allowing you to take action right away.
A customised footprint tool
Always instant overview and insight
Do you deal with many different suppliers and would you like to keep a finger on the pulse of the current environmental impact of your activities? We develop a user-friendly online footprint tool for you that gathers all relevant data and gives you an overview and insight into the footprint of your activities.
For persuasion
Often it is difficult to get a potential customer to invest in something if they do not understand how sustainable a product really is. By making the savings on the environmental impact transparent and by calculating scenarios for specific situations, a barrier is removed. We make this possible by developing customised advanced footprint tools.