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WHY MEASURE THE CARBON FOOTPRINT?


In short; so you can make more informed choices. But mostly because we can’t improve what we don’t measure, so we did a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) to understand the carbon footprint, global warming potential and other impacts our products are leaving on our planet. This way we can understand our environmental inefficiencies and we can work on them to lower our footprint. 


We aim to reduce to half our emissions by 2025 and target zero by 2030.


WHAT ARE WE MEASURING?

Every process from raw materials (which in our case are from recycled sources), to the production of the final frame, lenses, cases, cardboard packaging and transportation towards one distribution center in Europe.


Main results: 

Average KGCO2e/final product = 


1.69

The cases, boxes, transportation and lenses (which are made out of polycarbonate for recycling purposes) share the same data through every eyepiece so the main differences in carbon footprint between our products are the compositions of raw materials inside the frames. 



WE FOUND 3 MAIN GROUPS:

Recycled metals

& Econyl regenerated nylon:

 

All products made out of 100% metal, 100% Econyl or a combination of both materials have the lowest carbon footprint which is 1,59 KG CO2e per unit or lower.

Recycled polycarbonate combined:



All products made with polycarbonate combined with metal or Econyl Nylon (or both) have a medium carbon footprint of 1,67 KG CO2e per unit or lower.

Recycled polycarbonate alone: 



All products made only with recycled polycarbonate have the highest carbon footprint, of 1,77 KG CO2e per unit or lower.

WHAT WE COULDN'T MEASURE:

 

The last mile from this distribution center to our w sare houses and then to the final customer it’s not included in this measurement due to difficulties in projecting this data prior to the demand, but we aim to include it in the next measurement.

The numbers, similar to nature, will change because we will be working on improving and updating the information behind our footprint. The most recent data will be found on The Nest, since updating printed numbers takes a bit longer. 



If you feel like we´re being a bit vague you can read more here