What Counts for GreenAward?
Any scenario to make your product greener is applicable for GreenAward.
To the right is a shortlist of possible scenarios that you can think about.
Criteria
1
Eco-friendly Materials
Is your product made of recycled, recyclable, or green materials?
Material Examples: anything that is recycled (i.e plastic, glass, rubber), bamboo, bioplastic, cork, hemp, organic cotton
Product Examples: Patagonia's recycled plastic jackets, bamboo toothbrushes, AllBird's shoes, Addidas Recycled shoes.
2
Eco-friendly Manufacture
Did you get your product from eco-friendly manufacturers/companies?
If you don't know, check this list HERE.
3
Locally sourced Products
Is your product locally sourced?
Locally sourced products save on shipping and
Use different transportation methods to ship your product.
Example: Farm boy
4
Eco-friendly Packaging
Is your product reducing packaging or using green packaging?
Packaging your product differently by using greener packaging material and/or avoiding over-packaging.
For example, avoid double-boxing, and minimizing packing fillers.
Green Packaging material example: bio-degradable or recycled packaging, corrugated packaging, Glassine packaging, cellulose, cornstarch, mushroom, seaweed packaging.
5
Does your product help the environment?
Does your product allow users to reuse, recycle or reduce the impact on the environment?
For example, ebook vs book, beyondmeat vs meat.
AFC reuse food container
Steps
Step 1: Identify the comparison product
Step 2: Find the CO2e of both products
Step 3: Calculate the difference
If yes, do ....