Building confidence in product sustainability
Finding suppliers, products, materials and packaging with credible sustainability claims can be challenging — especially in a marketplace clouded by greenwashing. Manufacturers and brand owners need trustworthy proof to stand out and inspire buyer and retailer confidence.
UL Solutions can help you strengthen the credibility of your product sustainability claims through independent third-party validation, verification and certification services for key sustainability topics, including life cycle assessment (LCA), product carbon footprint (PCF) and impact on indoor air quality. Our expertise spans critical areas including circularity, carbon reduction and human health impact.
Our team of experts also collaborates with companies to advance circularity strategies through transparent measurement of performance — helping you meet regulatory demands, satisfy buyer expectations and demonstrate your commitment to sustainability.
Strengthen the credibility of your sustainability claims
Satisfy regulator and retailer requirements and stand out to consumers in a crowded marketplace with third-party data-driven validation of sustainability claims.
Identify packaging materials that advance safety, performance and sustainability
Address growing concerns over waste management and chemical content (including PFAS) in packaging and demonstrate compliance with safety, performance and sustainability requirements.
Demonstrate compliance with standards for recycled plastic content
Boost trust that mechanically recycled plastics meet safety standards and build confidence in their substitution for virgin plastic in end products.
Show progress toward product circularity
Demonstrate sustainability progress through comprehensive testing, data-backed claim validation and quantifiable assessment of circularity performance.
Highlight carbon reduction progress to satisfy stakeholders and regulators
Transparently show progress through third-party verification of sustainability and carbon reduction performance declarations, PCFs and reports, and get strategic direction for reduction activities with LCAs.
Understand how products may impact human health
From volatile organic compound (VOC) offgassing to microplastics in packaging, provide data-driven reassurance about how products may affect indoor air quality or other environmental aspects that may impact human health.
Build confidence in the sustainability of your products and packaging
Product circularity
Environment Claim Validation (ECV)
We offer third-party, data-driven validation of a range of product environmental claims, helping you increase brand credibility and consumer confidence in your products.
Recycled content validation
We assess products’ post-consumer, pre-consumer, closed-loop or total recycled content, ocean or ocean-bound plastic, or by-product synergy — providing third-party validation of sustainability claims.
Recycled plastics testing and certification
Demonstrate that your recycled plastics are suitable to substitute for virgin resin in end-product applications within the design limitations of applicable standards.
Comprehensive packaging services
We offer performance, sustainability and chemical content services for packaging, including ISTA Certified and Amazon Packaging Support and Supplier Network (APASS) testing laboratories.
Circularity Facts™ Program
Based on the world’s first science-based circular economy standard, our program helps you quantify efforts to make product, facility and enterprise material flows more circular and sustainable.
Impact on human health
UL GREENGUARD Certification
Demonstrate compliance with chemical emission standards and showcase your commitment to healthier indoor environments to buyers who prioritize health and safety.
ECOLOGO® Certification
Show that your products meet multi-attribute, life cycle–based sustainability criteria across corporate practices, resource use, health impacts, packaging, labeling, performance and manufacturing.
Carbon reduction
Life cycle assessment (LCA) services
We assess the cradle-to-grave environmental impact of products, processes or services in line with ISO 14040 and ISO 14044, helping you show accountability and meet stakeholder and market needs.
Product carbon footprint (PCF) verification
Third-party verification of your PCF to ISO 14067 establishes the reliability, consistency and accuracy of your data, builds stakeholder trust, and supports compliance with emerging regulations.
Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) certification
A UL Certified EPD details a product’s total environmental impact in a single, comprehensive report, enabling transparent communication and empowering informed buying decisions.
Meet our experts
“My passion is helping customers develop and implement strategies and understand how to translate the noise into something real and meaningful.”
Brian Kneibel
Sales Director, Retail and Consumer Products
“Consumer demand for more sustainable products is only going to increase. There are tremendous commercial growth opportunities for manufacturers, brand owners and retailers who take the lead on sustainable product development.”
William Pease, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist, Product and Supply Chain Intelligence
Featured resource
Turning Product Sustainability Claims into Strategic Advantage
In this UL Solutions Insights article by Dr. Anastasia Behr, we discuss the challenges in communicating the value of product sustainability claims and how third-party services can help build market credibility while driving business performance.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How can manufacturers and brand owners increase buyer confidence in products with sustainability attributes?
Third-party certifications like UL GREENGUARD and ECOLOGO® and validations such as Environmental Claim Validation and recycled content validation offer buyers confidence, backed by data. UL Solutions works with manufacturers and brand owners to determine testing needs for sustainability and environmental claims and performs comprehensive testing and evaluation for compliance with recognized standards.
- Can UL Solutions help with product circularity activities that showcase the cradle-to-grave environmental impact of our products?
UL Solutions has an in-house team of sustainability experts ready to offer a wide range of life cycle assessment (LCA) and related services, from drafting LCAs to verifying LCAs performed by other teams, as well as verification of Product Category Rules (PCRs) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs).
- How can we find materials and packaging that are in line with our chemical policies and emerging product sustainability regulations?
Look for materials and packaging with environmental or sustainability claims that have been certified, validated or verified against sustainability, safety and performance standards by a trusted third party. Through our Environmental Claim Validation services, manufacturers can be confident regarding attributes like zero waste to landfill, recycled content and more. Also, UL Marks including the UL GREENGUARD Mark and UL ECOLOGO® Mark help identify products with certified sustainability or health attributes.
- How does third-party validation of environmental claims help prevent greenwashing?
Third-party validation relies on data-driven testing and evaluation to established standards to demonstrate that claims — such as recycled content, zero waste to landfill or PFAS nondetectable status — are accurate and substantiated. By providing credible proof, UL Solutions helps manufacturers avoid misleading or unsupported claims — reducing the risk of greenwashing and building trust with regulators, retailers and consumers.
- What is the difference between recyclable packaging and packaging with recycled content?
Recyclable packaging is designed to be collected, processed and reused after consumer use.
Packaging with recycled content is made from materials that have already been recovered or diverted from the waste stream (post-consumer or post-industrial).
UL Solutions validates both attributes through Environmental Claim Validation.
Explore additional product sustainability services
More sustainable materials and supply chain transparency
Chemical compliance requirements are becoming more rigorous. Access comprehensive information on suppliers, chemicals and materials to help you develop a more sustainable portfolio.
Chemical management services and software
Meet evolving compliance requirements through data management software — plus a portfolio of testing services for substances of concern — tailored for your needs.
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