2012 Product Categories
2012 Product Categories
The Sustainability Consortium is committed to remaining a transparent organization focused
on delivering valuable knowledge products to our members. This tool is designed to facilitate
in the education of TSC’s progress and scope of work by visually depicting the product categories being covered in 2012. Participants can view the categories by sector as well as
find important category statistics such as; production, consumer expenditure and percentage
of possession. Members have the ability to log onto TSC’s internal database to view all the
of knowledge products.
How It Works
To start, literature, experts and members are consulted to help understand the life cycle assessment of a particular product. From there, hotspots and improvement opportunities along a product’s life cycle identified.
What happens next?
Category Sustainability Profiles, also known as CSP’s are created from the collected information. CSP’s are user-friendly documents that summarize the best available, credible and actionable knowledge about the sustainability aspects related to a product over its entire life. Each CSP represents the culmination of an enormous body of scientific research and expert opinioninto one user-friendly page.
Why it matters
The Sustainability Measurement and Reporting System serves as a common science and IT platform that enables the creation, analysis, and communication of comparable and standardized information about the life cycle of products. It is helping organizations find a common understanding across and between industry sectors, measure product sustainability progress over time, and evaluate and prioritize purchasing decisions all while reducing the cost and time associated with doing LCA and product declarations.