Use Case
Embed sustainability into product design
Adopting ecodesign is essential to reducing your company’s environmental footprint and driving product innovation.
Root’s product-level footprints and scenario builder empower you to make smarter product design decisions without the guesswork.
Use Case
Embed sustainability into product design
Adopting ecodesign is essential to reducing your company’s environmental footprint and driving product innovation.
Root’s product-level footprints and scenario builder empower you to make smarter product design decisions without the guesswork.
Designing without data
Did you know that 80% of a product’s environmental impact is determined at the design stage? Yet most companies still design without product-level data so they do not know which parts of their products create the most impact. You need robust LCA data on each product in your portfolio to develop data-driven strategies that create sustainable products.
With growing regulatory pressure and rising demand for more sustainable products adopting ecodesign is no longer optional – it’s essential.
Without insights into product footprints companies are making crucial decisions around product design blind.
How Root can help
This is where Root steps in. Having detailed product footprints across your entire portfolio helps you identify the products with the biggest environmental impact. Root’s scenario builder enables you to test ways to reduce your product’s footprint and understand the environmental impact of design choices. Having scaleable LCAs on all your products empowers you to make data-driven decisions and use ecodesign to create more sustainable products.
This is how it works:
Step 1: Upload data
- Upload your available company and product data using our user-friendly onboarding modules. We guide you through every step to collect the correct primary data.
- Root maps your supply chain and identifies additional information needed to create robust product footprints.
- Provide information about your products, suppliers, and transport routes.
- Missing some data? No problem – Root helps you fill in the gaps with informed assumptions, and we conduct an initial screening. From this screening, we help you focus on collecting the data on the 10% of your products that have the biggest impact, and we help you improve data accuracy over time.
Step 1: Upload data
- Upload your available company and product data using our user-friendly onboarding modules. We guide you through every step to collect the correct primary data.
- Root maps your supply chain and identifies additional information needed to create robust product footprints.
- Provide information about your products, suppliers, and transport routes.
- Missing some data? No problem – Root helps you fill in the gaps with informed assumptions, and we conduct an initial screening. From this screening, we help you focus on collecting the data on the 10% of your products that have the biggest impact, and we help you improve data accuracy over time.
Step 2: Measure impact
- Root generates thousands of product life cycles at once from that simple data upload.
- Root converts your product data into impact data using advanced algorithms and LCA databases.
- Understand your product’s impact with our clever dashboards, showing you information including:
- The products that contribute the most to your carbon and environmental footprint.
- A breakdown of your product’s carbon and environmental impact per life cycle stage.
- Detailed information about the environmental impact of each product in your portfolio e.g. climate impact, water consumption.
Step 2: Measure impact
- Root generates thousands of product life cycles at once from that simple data upload.
- Root converts your product data into impact data using advanced algorithms and LCA databases.
- Understand your product’s impact with our clever dashboards, showing you information including:
- The products that contribute the most to your carbon and environmental footprint.
- A breakdown of your product’s carbon and environmental impact per life cycle stage.
- Detailed information about the environmental impact of each product in your portfolio e.g. climate impact, water consumption.
Step 3: Analyse insights
- Model alternative scenarios to reduce your product’s environmental and carbon footprint.
- Leverage product-level data and Root’s scenario builder to make smarter product design decisions.
Step 3: Analyse insights
- Model alternative scenarios to reduce your product’s environmental and carbon footprint.
- Leverage product-level data and Root’s scenario builder to make smarter product design decisions.
Step 4: Optimise impact
- Set reduction goals and track your progress over time.
- Communicate your product footprints and how you used data to innovate more sustainable products to your customers, employees, and stakeholders through your website, blogs, and reports.
Step 4: Optimise impact
- Set reduction goals and track your progress over time.
- Communicate your product footprints and how you used data to innovate more sustainable products to your customers, employees, and stakeholders through your website, blogs, and reports.
Benefits
Benefit 1: Ease of use
Skip the complex LCA process. Just upload your available data and we'll provide full LCA insights for all your products.
Benefit 2: Scalability
Don't assess products one by one. Upload your data and get instant insights into your entire portfolio and organisation.
Benefit 3: Impact focused
Don’t waste time guessing where to focus. Screen your business, find the 10% driving 90% of your impact, and fully focus on that.
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