Environmental Product Declaration Certification

Market demand is growing for the disclosure of a product’s cradle-to-grave environmental impact. Manufacturers need to provide transparent reporting on the environmental performance or impact of their products to buyers and specifiers so they can make more informed buying decisions.

Environmental product declarations (EPDs) help manufacturers tell a product’s overall sustainability story in a single, comprehensive report, and can include details on land use changes, potential toxicity risks and corporate environmental initiatives.

An environmental product declaration (EPD) transparently reports the life cycle assessment of a product’s environmental impact, including its global warming potential, smog creation, ozone depletion, water pollution and more.

UL Solutions offers a range of EPD-aligned services according to the ISO 14025 standard, which add third-party credibility to sustainability claims.

Here’s how we can help:

An EPD is a summary of the life cycle assessment (LCA) for a product from material extraction to production, shipping, consumption and disposal. The LCA is developed according to product-specific calculation requirements and methodologies called Product Category Rules (PCRs) that help ensure consistent data collection and analysis during LCA creation. This comprehensive approach is why EPDs support the comparison of environmental impacts of like products, providing increased transparency.

_{*All LCAs offered through this service are subject to independent third-party verification. The LCA creator and verifier are separate entities to ensure impartiality and compliance with ISO 14040/14044 standards. PCFs are developed and/or verified in accordance with applicable international standards and program operator requirements.}

EPDs can help a manufacturer become a preferred supplier for designers, contractors, architects, and other key buyers and satisfy investor and stakeholder requests. Several factors are driving growth:

For manufacturers that have taken measurable steps to improve the potential environmental impact of their products, EPD Optimization helps you showcase your efforts. This standalone verification requires a comparative LCA evaluating the impact of the product before and after implementing sustainability measures.

We can verify that the report meets the comparison criteria established in international standards and that at least a 10% reduction in global warming potential is achieved.

As part of this service, UL Solutions can also evaluate for compliance with LEED EPD Optimization criteria, allowing buildings to gain LEED points when using your products.