Purpose of Environmental Apps
Identifying which components in your product or supply chain have the largest contribution is now, more than ever, a critical process within product design, and tools such as the Makersite Climate Apps make it easy to highlight the areas that could be improved, and more importantly then facilitate the optimization of these areas to best benefit the product, profit and the impact on the environment.
Environmental apps are designed to present the specific environmental impact of your product. The categories are mostly derived from EF 3.0 (adapted) method, which is developed by the European Commission. The methodologies for all apps are described below.
App | Description and Methodology |
Climate Change - Total | The EF 3.0 (adapted) method for measuring Climate Change impact has 3 categories - fossil fuels, biogenic, and land use. This app sums up the impacts from all categories. Whenever you see "Climate Change - EF 3.0 Method (Adapted)" in Makersite, it refers to this method. |
Climate Change - Fossil | Climate change from fossil fuels as defined by EF 3.0 (adapted) methodology, kg of CO2 equivalent. |
Climate Change - Biogenic | This category covers carbon emissions to air (CO2, CO and CH4) originating from the oxidation and/or reduction of aboveground biomass, as defined by EF 3.0 (adapted) methodology |
Climate Change - Land Use | This category accounts for carbon uptakes and emissions (CO2, CO and CH4) originating from carbon stock changes caused by land use change and land use, as defined by EF 3.0 (adapted) methodology |
Climate Change - IPCC | Climate change impact as defined by The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - 2021 version. |
Water use | Water deprivation impact as defined by EF 3.0 (adapted) methodology. Measures water deprivation in m3. |
Ozone depletion | Ozone depletion impact normalized using kg of CFC11 equivalent in accordance with EF 3.0 (adapted) methodology. |
Terrestrial eutrophication | Eutrophication is an impact on the ecosystems from substances containing nitrogen (N) or phosphorus (P). Makersite measures terrestrial eutrophication in accordance with EF 3.0 (adapted) methodology. |
Marine eutrophication | Eutrophication is an impact on the ecosystems from substances containing nitrogen (N) or phosphorus (P). Makersite measures marine eutrophication in accordance with EF 3.0 (adapted) methodology. |
Freshwater eutrophication | As above, but for fresh water. |
Fossil use | Measures the consumption of fossil fuels. Measured in MJ in accordance with EF 3.0 (adapted) methodology. |
Minerals & Metal resources | Measures the consumption of mineral and metal resources in accordance with EF 3.0 (adapted) methodology. Measured in kg of Sb equivalent. |
Land use | The impact category Land Use tries to estimate the damage to ecosystems due to the effects of occupation and transformation of land. Measured in accordance with EF 3.0 (adapted) methodology using points (Pt). |
Inorganic pollutants to water | Measured in accordance with EF 3.0 (adapted) methodology using Comparative Toxic Units for ecotoxicity |
Metallic pollutants to water | Measured in accordance with EF 3.0 (adapted) methodology using Comparative Toxic Units for ecotoxicity |
Pollutants to water | Sum of all other water ecotoxicity impacts. Measured in accordance with EF 3.0 (adapted) methodology using Comparative Toxic Units for ecotoxicity |
Organic pollutants to water | Measured in accordance with EF 3.0 (adapted) methodology using Comparative Toxic Units for ecotoxicity |
Acidification | Acidification is mainly caused by air emissions of NH3, NO2 and SOX. Measured in accordance with EF 3.0 (adapted) using mol H+ equivalent |
Primary Energy Demand | Reported in accordance with Cumulative Energy Demand (LHV) method. |
Total Waste Materials | Waste reporting based on Makersite's own impact modeling, in kg. |
Materials Recycled | Waste reporting based on Makersite's own impact modeling, in kg. |
Materials incinerated with energy recovery | Waste reporting based on Makersite's own impact modeling, in kg. |
Materials incinerated without energy recovery | Waste reporting based on Makersite's own impact modeling, in kg. |
Materials for landfill | Waste reporting based on Makersite's own impact modeling, in kg. |
Materials for other disposal route | Waste reporting based on Makersite's own impact modeling, in kg. |
Recycled Content | Makersite calculates Recycled Content based on the material composition of the product. For example, if the product weighs 1000 kg, has 100kg of steel, and 10% of the input for steel is scrap metal, then that results in 10kg of Recycled Content in the product from steel. Expressed as a percentage of the total weight. |
Recyclability | Recyclability is calculated by Makersite and expressed as a percentage of the product mass useful as manufacturing input (End of Life - Recycling Input Rate) |
Exported energy (electricity) | Makersite model of exporting electric energy from waste treatment, expressed in MJ/kg |
Exported energy (thermal) | Makersite model of exporting thermal energy from waste treatment, expressed in MJ/kg |
This group of apps is were your product can be evaluated based on a wide range of general and specific environmental impacts, each app has the same set of visualizations making it easy to review different impact results.
