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
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Eco-friendly Materials
Is your product made of recycled, recyclable, or green materials?
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Material Examples: anything that is recycled (i.e plastic, glass, rubber), bamboo, bioplastic, cork, hemp, organic cotton
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Product Examples: Patagonia's recycled plastic jackets, bamboo toothbrushes, AllBird's shoes, Addidas Recycled shoes.
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Eco-friendly Manufacture
Did you get your product from eco-friendly manufacturers/companies?
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If you don't know, check this list HERE.
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Locally sourced Products
Is your product locally sourced?
Locally sourced products save on shipping and
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Use different transportation methods to ship your product.
Example: Farm boy
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Eco-friendly Packaging
​Is your product reducing packaging or using green packaging?
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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.
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Does your product help the environment?
Does your product allow users to reuse, recycle or reduce the impact on the environment?
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For example, ebook vs book, beyondmeat vs meat.
AFC reuse food container
Steps
Step 1: Identify the comparison product
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Step 2: Find the CO2e of both products
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Step 3: Calculate the difference
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