EPD® – Environmental Product Declaration
What Is an EPD?
An EPD® is a certified Environmental Product Declaration, which specifies environmental data over the life cycle of products in accordance with the international standard ISO 14025. EPDs present transparent, verified and comparable information about the life-cycle environmental impact of products.
An EPD is a standardised way to quantify the environmental performance of a product, process or system and to report on it. EPDs are based on a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
In practice, an EPD is a report containing market-driven and verified facts about the environmental performance of goods, i.e. carpets. One of the most important applications for EPDs is green procurement in the public and private sectors, as the EPD provides a basis for comparing the environmental performance of products.
The aim of EPD is to inform users of the environmental credentials of construction products and to enable the evaluation and benchmarking of whole buildings in the UK and across the globe.
Environmental Transparency
If you are an architect, you can easily compare the EPD data of the materials you are about to use and choose the most sustainable option.
EPD can be used externally for marketing materials and internally for the improvement of product manufacture or process efficiency. They can also feed into whole building assessment schemes, other comparative tools, and building information modelling (BIM) CAD software.
As Burmatex® is committed to environmental standards, all our products are now assessed with EPD certifications.
All Burmatex® EPDs:
- Provide objective and transparent information about the environmental performance of our carpet products to our customers as part of Burmatex® sustainability and environmental policy
- Reflect continuously on the environmental improvement of our carpet product and our manufacturing processes
- Provide credibility through a third-party verified EPD (Environdec)
- Demonstrate the environmental awareness of our actions
