Life Cycle Assessment
Know the impact of your product
Understand the environmental impact of your product with life cycle assessment. Turn product data into a clear carbon footprint, identify the biggest hotspots, explore improvement scenarios and make better environmental decisions.
- Calculate environmental impact
- Identify hotspots
- Explore scenarios
- Aligned with ISO standards
- Enable Digital Product Passports
Total impact
5.06kg CO₂ eq
by product component
| Component | Share | Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Bottle Body Assembly | 97% | 4.89 kg CO₂ eq |
| Cap & Seal Assembly | 2.3% | 115 g CO₂ eq |
| Packaging | 1.0% | 52 g CO₂ eq |
| Component | Share | Impact |
|---|---|---|
| 97% | 4.89 | |
| 2.3% | 0.11 | |
| 1.0% | 0.05 |
The bigger picture
What is a Life Cycle Assessment?
A Life Cycle Assessment shows where your product's environmental impact comes from. It connects materials, manufacturing, transport and other lifecycle stages to a measurable footprint - giving you the insight to improve what matters most.
Total climate footprint
7.44 kg CO2e
Production selected: 5.06 kg CO2e, 68% of the total footprint.
Production, broken down
From raw materials to a finished bottle. See which processes contribute to the production footprint.
68%of total5.06 kg CO2e
| Process | Share | Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Materials | 52% | 2.63 kg CO2e |
| Manufacturing | 28% | 1.42 kg CO2e |
| Transport | 12% | 0.61 kg CO2e |
| Packaging | 8.0% | 0.4 kg CO2e |
What does 5.06 kg CO2 look like?
Put the production footprint into perspective with familiar, approximate comparisons.
Approximately 38 km driven by a petrol car
Approximately 8,130 smartphone charges
Approximately 84 days of CO2 absorption by one tree
How these comparisons are calculated
Car: 5.061 / 0.134 kg CO2 per km. Combustion cars in Europe averaged about 134 g CO2/km in 2024, from ICCT analysis of EEA new-car monitoring.
Phone: 5.061 / (0.015 kWh × 0.0415 kg CO2e/kWh). 15 Wh per full charge, using the 2024 Danish electricity factor from the Danish Energy Agency.
Tree absorption: (5.061 / 22 kg CO2 per tree-year) × 365 days. European Commission estimates that a mature tree absorbs about 22 kg CO2 per year.
These comparisons describe scale, not identical lifecycle boundaries or an offset. Actual emissions and absorption vary by technology, location and conditions.
Why LCA matters
Turn environmental data into better decisions
A footprint is only useful if it helps you decide what to do next. LifeTrace turns Life Cycle Assessment results into practical insight you can use across product development, sourcing, compliance and communication.
See where your environmental impact actually comes from. LifeTrace breaks the result down by material, component, process and lifecycle stage, making the biggest impact hotspots immediately visible. Focus improvement efforts where they can make the greatest difference.
From product to understanding
How LifeTrace calculates your impact
One connected workflow, from the information you already have to the insights you need.
- 01
Understand the product
Start with a complete view of your product. LifeTrace helps you perform the product analysis, structure components, materials, suppliers and processes, and use the AI copilot to identify and fill missing information.
- 02
Map environmental data
Connect your product data to the right environmental datasets. Once the product analysis is complete, the AI copilot can help map materials and production processes to the most relevant ecoinvent datasets and surface the assumptions behind each match.
- 03
Calculate & interpret impact
Turn the mapped product model into measurable environmental impact. LifeTrace calculates the footprint across the lifecycle, breaks the result down by material, process and stage, and helps you identify hotspots, compare scenarios and understand where improvements will have the greatest effect.
Focus on what matters
From impact to hotspots
Life Cycle Assessment gives you more than a footprint - it shows you what drives it. Break down the impact by materials, components and processes, identify the biggest hotspots and focus your improvements where they can make the greatest difference.
Explore what could be better
Change the scenario. See the impact.
Test different materials, suppliers and production processes before making real-world changes. Compare alternatives against your current product, quantify the environmental impact and make decisions based on evidence - not assumptions.
Production in Asia
5.06 kg CO₂ eq
Production in Europe
3.01 kg CO₂ eq
kg CO₂ eq
Environmental Footprint 3.1
Understand impact across 16 categories
Go beyond carbon. Environmental Footprint 3.1 evaluates a product's impact across 16 environmental categories, giving you a broader view of where impact occurs across the lifecycle.
Selected category
01 / 16Climate change
Measures greenhouse gas emissions and their contribution to global warming, typically expressed as kg CO₂e.
Indicator unit kg CO₂ eq
A trusted foundation
Environmental data powered by ecoinvent
A Life Cycle Assessment is only as strong as the environmental data behind it. That is why LifeTrace uses ecoinvent - the world's most widely used life cycle inventory database - to turn product information into measurable environmental impact.
26,000+
Peer-reviewed datasets
Covering materials, energy, transport, manufacturing, waste and many of the other activities that shape a product's footprint across the lifecycle.
LifeTrace matches your product data to relevant ecoinvent datasets. These datasets provide the environmental information needed to calculate impact across the full product lifecycle - from raw materials and production to transport and end of life.
Connected to your Digital Product Passport
Don't just calculate impact. Communicate it.
Turn your Life Cycle Assessment into clear, consumer-facing product information. Share selected environmental indicators, explain the story behind the numbers, and make your product's impact transparent.
The copilot
One AI copilot. Every step of the product journey.
Your expert product and sustainability consultant is built directly into LifeTrace. It can create products, support product analysis and life cycle assessment, identify missing data, and research materials, suppliers and production processes - all while working directly with your product data and the full LifeTrace platform.
- You: Copilot, can you calculate the environmental impact of this product?
- Copilot: Yes. I'll use the product analysis to build the lifecycle model and map the materials, production processes, transport and energy use to the relevant environmental datasets.
- You: Go ahead. Which component has the biggest impact?
- Copilot: The aluminium bottle body is currently the largest contributor, with 4.89 kg CO2 equivalent out of a total of 5.06 kg, or 97%. This is mainly due to primary aluminium production. Packaging has a comparatively small impact.
- You: What would happen if we used 70% recycled aluminium?
- Copilot: I can create that as an alternative scenario and compare it with the current product.
- You: Please do.
- Copilot: Done. The recycled-aluminium scenario reduces the estimated climate impact by 56%. I've saved the comparison to the LCA so you can review the assumptions and results.
What you get
Your Life Cycle Assessment
A connected view of your footprint, the evidence behind it and the opportunities ahead. Ready to work with, not just report on.
Total environmental footprint
See the overall impact of your product across selected impact categories.
Lifecycle stage breakdown
Understand how production, use phase and end of life contribute to the result.
Component contribution
See which product components are responsible for the largest share of impact.
Material and process hotspots
Identify the materials and manufacturing processes that matter most.
Environmental datasets and assumptions
See which datasets, modelling choices and assumptions sit behind the calculation.
Data quality and completeness
Understand where the assessment is based on verified data and where uncertainty remains.
Scenario comparisons
Compare alternative materials, suppliers or production choices against your current product.
Results ready to communicate
Bring selected impact results directly into your Digital Product Passport.
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