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 their 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:

Track emissions across the full product lifecycle.
See granular analysis and compare product carbon intensity.
Share product-level data with customers using a live dashboard.

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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  • Intuitive 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

"With Seedling, we inputted data on what we do as a brand: the materials we use, where they're made, how they've travelled etc. The team at Seedling then calculate what that means in terms of carbon. To see all of our data in one place, and having a real person at the end of the phone to discuss what the data means and crucially how to make what we do better, was amazing."
Fashion
Patrick McDowell
Founder
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Patrick McDowell
“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
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Summit Medical
"Seedling were an invaluable partner in developing our Carbon Reduction Plan. Their collaborative approach involved accurate emission calculations, presented transparently through a user-friendly platform. Seedling's expertise and dedication made the entire process seamless – I’d recommend Seedling to businesses on a sustainability journey."
Consulting
Kristina Vard
Marketing lead
,
FarrPoint
"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
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Janea Systems
"We were keen to measure our emissions but didn’t know where to start. As an SME with little carbon accounting experience – and a manufacturer needing to capture trickier areas like material inputs – Seedling’s platform and 1:1 support were invaluable. The Seedling team made a potentially complicated process straightforward for us. We’re now clear on our key hotspots and have a credible reduction plan we’re proud to share."
MANUFACTURING
Emma Hedley
Programme Assistant
,
EPS Logistics Technology
"Seedling’s carbon footprint platform is refreshingly easy to use and makes reporting much more straightforward than I would have believed possible. I’m so pleased with how effortlessly it simplifies our carbon reduction calculations, dramatically reducing the time it takes to produce a Carbon Reduction Plan."
Consulting
Emilie Smith
Operations & People Lead
,
Create Change
“As a start-up, I found it really hard to find a carbon accounting solution to suit. Along came Seedling. From the start, I was impressed by their approach and knowledge, and the intuitiveness and agility of the Seedling platform. They’re always happy to respond to my endless questions and work to find a solution, for example helping quantify the carbon impact of our payments product.”
Financial services
Lisa Stanley
Chief Sustainability Officer
,
Zero

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.