Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) - Carbon Impact Methodology

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LET’S MAKE CARBON IMPACT LABELING THE NEW NORM

Logitech uses a robust methodology that allows us to measure and analyze the life cycle of our products and assess the carbon impacts of each phase – from the sourcing of raw materials to the products’ end-of-life.

Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) helps us measure and continually improve our carbon impacts, but that’s not all. The carbon footprint on product labels allows you to make more informed decisions about how you want to reduce your own footprint.

When carbon impact labeling becomes mainstream and part of everyday life, like calories on nutrition labels, it will bring more clarity to the climate impact of purchasing decisions. That’s why we are open-sourcing the methodology to interested companies. The more we understand the carbon impact of our daily purchases, the better we will be able to reduce it.

Methodology Overview

There are four key phases to the LCA: sourcing and manufacturing, transportation and storage, in-use, and end-of-life. Each of these phases comes with its own set of critical focus areas that will shape the final carbon impact of a product.

Our multi-step, third-party reviewed methodology conforms to international good practice standards ISO 14067 and ISO 14044. These steps include:

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Sourcing and Manufacturing

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Transportation and Storage

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In-Use

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End of Life

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Phase 1

SOURCING AND MANUFACTURING

This phase measures the impact of manufacturing the product. We consider every detail from raw material extraction all the way to assembling constituent parts. We work with suppliers to gather insights into the manufacturing process to create a clear picture of the total carbon impacts during this phase.

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Phase 2

TRANSPORTATION AND STORAGE

Once we have the final product tested, boxed and ready for use we have to get it from the factory to you— a journey that we model from beginning to end.

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Phase 3

IN-USE

This phase allows us to calculate the impact the item has while it is being used, over a two year period. Consumer usage insights models help us predict consumption patterns in this phase, but the impact is ultimately in your hands.

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Phase 4

END-OF-LIFE

This phase covers the end of a product's life, including retrieving and recycling products wherever possible.

FIND A RECYCLING CENTER NEAR YOU

CARBON CALCULATOR
AND THIRD-PARTY VERIFICATION

To calculate the final carbon footprint of a product, we use a third party Life Cycle Assessment Umberto software platform, which uses a combination of published datasets from product sustainability databases, together with custom LCA models developed using primary data. To support the integrity of the carbon calculations, we are working with internationally recognized LCA experts in the iPoint Group together with an independent verifier to validate product-level carbon impacts to DEKRA certification standards.

Our Partners

Our LCA methodology has been a long time in the making. It has taken a huge effort and true team spirit at Logitech to turn our carbon vision into a reality. We still have a long way to go to achieve the level of transparency and granularity that we aspire to, but we’re confident of our journey and plan. Our success to date has been made possible through our partners, working with the iPoint Group to help us develop the lifecycle models to create numbers with meaning, and DEKRA, who ensure that our carbon footprint number has been critically reviewed to ISO14067 and ISO 14044 standards.

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