Product Carbon Footprints

Dive into the carbon impact of your products across their full lifecycle. Identify key emission hotspots and share trusted product-level data with clients.

Understand the carbon impact of your products across the lifecycle

With easy-to-use tech and 1:1 expert support, Seedling makes it simple to accurately track, reduce, and report product-level emissions.

Our Product Carbon Footprint tool helps product-based businesses to:

Identify key hotspots across the project lifecycle
Track and reduce project emissions at each stage (concept, design etc)
Share detailed, RICS-sligned reports with with clients

View an example Product Footprint page

Each product you measure gets its own carbon impact page - share with a link or add a QR code to the product packaging.

Read our guide to Product Carbon Footprinting

What is a Product Carbon Footprint, and why measure one? Read our guide to learn all you need to know.
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  • User-friendly software
  • One-click reporting
  • 1:1 support from the experts

Why work with us?

Easy-to-use platform

Seedling is designed for small and mid-sized teams - we streamline product footprints, without comporising on rigour.

Expert backup

We're not just a software platform - we're with you 1:1 throughout the whole process.

Full reporting coverage

Measure, track and report the carbon impact of your entire business, as well as your products, in one place.

How does it work?

1

Measure your emissions

Guided by your adviser, gather and input the data needed for your product carbon footprints.

Our easy-to-use platform and expert support make this doable in days, not months.

2

Identify reduction opportunities

Work with your adviser to understand your hotspots and build a carbon reduction plan.

Get bespoke support, tailored to your business and sector-specific challenges.

3

Share your impact

Your product-level emissions are ready to share on your product impact page - just copy a link or embed a QR code on your packaging.

What our clients say

Hear from our satisfied Seedling clients

“Before working with Seedling, we were managing our Carbon Reduction Plan manually in-house. The process was time-consuming, and we knew there were gaps. Seedling transformed this, making it 10 times faster and far more robust. They helped us achieve full coverage of our emissions and provided expert one-to-one guidance on decarbonisation, leaving us confident in our plan for the future.”
Med Tech
Pete Best
Global Commercial & Sustainability Lead
,
Summit Medical
"We needed to report carbon data and a decarbonisation plan to our client, Microsoft. We needed the output to be high quality and credible, but didn’t have loads of time to dedicate to measuring emissions. Seedling’s software plus support model meant the process wasn’t too time intensive for us as a busy team. The fact that our calculations were checked by Seedling us confidence in the output."
Software
Marcell Csomor
Business Operations Manager
,
Janea Systems
"We chose Seedling to help us negotiate our carbon counting efforts. They made a complicated process as simple and effective as possible. Their platform is thoughtfully designed and offers clear step by step guidance throughout the process. Their customer service is also second to none. They truly support you throughout the analysis and are always quick to respond to queries. Aimée, Blair and their team have created an exceptional product and service. I would not hesitate to recommend their platform."
Creative agency
Chris Hacking
Business Director
,
forpeople
"We wanted to understand and reduce our carbon footprint but felt overwhelmed and didn’t know where to start. Seedling guided us through the process every step of the way, their easy-to-use platform made collecting our business data straightforward, and the team gave us tailored support to build an emissions reduction plan. Thanks to Seedling, we’ve started our journey to Net Zero with confidence."
Creative agency
Ursula Fairlie
Senior Content Manager
,
Rationale
‘When we started with Seedling, we were just beginning our journey towards understanding our carbon footprint. Seedling have been the ultimate professionals and have created a system that is easy to use, so now I have the knowledge to make informed decisions in line with our B Corp status.’
Marketing agency
Sian Eddy
Head of Ops
,
Modern
‘We are incredibly happy with our experience with Seedling. We were guided through the process, and it was simple for us to submit the required information. We also had transparency over our offsetting projects. We now understand our footprint and how to reduce it.’
Consulting
Megan Savage Shaw
ESG Lead
,
CIL
"We've found the Seedling team incredibly responsive - they've gone out of their way to help us report accurately on our carbon footprint, and to enable us to take forward our strategic ESG ambitions with confidence."
Law firm
Withers & Rogers
ESG Lead
,
Withers & Rogers

FAQs

Your questions answered

How does Seedling calculate product-level emissions?

Following guidance from the GHG Protocol and ISO 14067 standards, we first define the product to be measured (e.g. 1 finished unit of product X) and the boundaries (or scope) of the assessment - usually cradle-to-grave. We'll then analyse the input/output flows of the product (things like ingredients or materials on the input side, and waste on the output side). You'll then input data relating to those processes, and we'll calculate emissions on that basis.

Are Product Carbon Footprints mandatory?

It depends on the sector and your geography. The EU is rolling out regulation on Digital Product Passports which mandate product-level impact assessments for some products. However, other businesses may not be directly affected, but still required to submit product-level data as part of tenders or client requests.

How does the product impact page work?

Once you've measured your product-level emissions, you can easily share the results using your product impact page - an online dashboard showing a full breakdown of the product's emissions and key hotspots. Simply share a link, or add a QR code to labeling or packaging.

What is the GHG Protocol and ISO 14067?

Both are standards that specify how product-level emissions should be calculated, with some differences.

The GHG Protocol is a framework/guideline (flexible, widely adopted, covers organizations, value chains, and products).

ISO 14067 is a formal standard (more prescriptive, mainly for product-level footprints, often used for certification/verification).

How long does it take to measure product-level emissions?

Using our Product Footprint module, you can calculate product-level emissions as soon as you have the data ready to input.

Still have questions?

Book a demo or get in touch and we'll be happy to help. Or follow this step-by-step guide to measuring your business's carbon footprint.