Did you know that over 80% of a product’s environmental impact is determined at the design stage? That’s why conducting a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is essential for businesses striving to reduce their environmental footprint.
In today’s business landscape, environmental performance is no longer a “nice to have”, it’s a commercial necessity. Customers, regulators, and supply chain partners all expect transparency on the environmental impact of products and packaging, while businesses are under mounting pressure to prove their progress toward sustainability. The question is: how do you go beyond good intentions and provide robust, credible data that supports greener decision-making?
This is where Life Cycle Assessment consultancy plays a critical role. A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an internationally recognised methodology that quantifies a product’s environmental impacts across its entire life cycle, from raw material extraction, manufacturing, distribution, and use, right through to end-of-life. By adopting a “cradle-to-grave” approach, an LCA offers a holistic view that helps businesses understand where the biggest environmental burdens occur, and where the greatest opportunities for improvement lie.
Valpak’s dedicated sustainability experts provide Life Cycle Assessment consultancy that delivers far more than just compliance. Using rigorous standards like ISO 14040/14044 and ISO 14025 and aligning with product-specific category rules (PCRs), Valpak ensures results are not only robust but also credible in the eyes of regulators, investors, and customers alike. From the outset, our team works closely with businesses to define goals, collect primary data, model impacts using trusted databases, and interpret results in a way that informs both sustainability strategies and stakeholder engagement.
But LCAs are only one part of the picture. Many organisations also need to communicate findings in a consistent, market-ready format. That’s where Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) come in. An EPD is a standardised, independently verified summary of LCA results, giving businesses a credible way to publish and share their product’s environmental performance. By partnering with Valpak, companies gain support throughout the EPD development and verification process, ensuring their declarations are aligned with global best practice and ready to stand up to external scrutiny.
At the heart of these services lies environmental impact reporting. With growing pressure from frameworks like CBAM and other mandatory reporting obligations, businesses need accurate, science-based data to underpin their disclosures. Valpak’s team ensures that LCAs and EPDs integrate seamlessly into broader reporting processes, supporting corporate carbon foot printing, sustainability reports, and net-zero strategies.
For many businesses, packaging represents a significant share of environmental impact. That’s why Valpak also provides specialised packaging carbon footprint consultancy, helping organisations assess and compare different packaging formats through detailed scenario analysis. These insights empower businesses to innovate responsibly, reducing emissions, improving recyclability, and aligning with consumer expectations for sustainable packaging.
Our consultants will walk you through the essentials: what LCAs and EPDs are, why they matter, how they are carried out, and the real benefits they can deliver for businesses. From understanding the technical steps of data collection and modelling, to exploring how results feed into sustainability strategies and supply chain transparency, we’ll break down the process in a way that’s accessible to beginners while still detailed enough to support practical action.
Life Cycle Assessment consultancy and environmental impact reporting can transform sustainability ambitions into credible, measurable outcomes. Discover how Valpak’s expertise can support your organisation in turning environmental insight into lasting competitive advantage.
A Life Cycle Assessment provides more than just numbers, it’s a strategic tool for driving sustainability, compliance, and innovation. Whether you’re seeking to identify impact hotspots, compare product options, or publish an EPD, Valpak’s LCA experts can help.
Find out more on our Life Cycle Assessment page.
Or enquire about our EPD service to take the next step toward verified sustainability reporting.
Want to hear a real-world success story? Valpak Life Cycle Assessment expert, Consultant, Dany Jammal will be presenting alongside our customer Chemfix at the Environmental Services and Solutions Expo on 17 September, at the Birmingham NEC, sharing how we supported them with LCAs to unlock measurable sustainability gains. Come along to our seminar or stop by the Valpak stand to chat with Dany or other members of our knowledgeable team directly.