Process and product evaluation

Clarity can help manufacturers to assess the full life cycle environmental impacts of their products or processes whatever sector they work within. Clarity will give practical and pragmatic advice that manufacturers can act on to:

• Identify hot-spots and provide potent opportunities for innovation – LCA frequently gives unexpected results – the issues that companies expect to be problematic and intractable or expensive to resolve often turn out not to be so significant. Other things (that are often easy and inexpensive to change) often turn out to have much more environmental benefit. In contrast to popular perception, a life cycle approach usually identifies innovations that both reduce environmental impact and reduce costs or improve efficiency, productivity and profitability – sweet spot decision-making provides commercial and environmental benefits simultaneously.
• Prove your environmental claims and provide a basis for ecolabel applications or Environmental Product Declarations. Nigel Howard has pioneered work to build consensus across industry sectors on a consistent and robust methodology that can be universally applied with confidence (BL LCI). Clarity staff are intimately involved in initiatives within National Standards and the Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society to improve the consistency and robustness of ecolabelling and EPD schemes in Australia and to make them cheaper and more accessible to industry.
• Provide you with practical, intuitive tools that allow you to exploit the LCA information provided and innovate without having to purchase and train in expensive LCA software or return to Clarity every time you make a change to your processes/products.

Uniquely, Clarity use the “Grail” LCA methodology for all projects (and background data) to ensure consistency, repeatability and comparability.  Clarity will not provide your company with a report showing your product as best and subsequently a report for your competitor showing that theirs is the best.  If you are looking for Greenwash, please go to our competitors, if you are looking for objective truth and real improvement then we are keen to work with you.