EPD Guide

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EPD Impact Categories, Summarized

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Two pans on a balance scale, one with grey virgin pellets and a heavy carbon cloud overhead, the other with colorful recycled pellets and a lighter cloud, showing the GWP drop by feedstock choice.

Raise recycled plastics, drop GWP, no reformulation

If your product contains plastics, you can often cut cradle‑to‑gate GWP fast by increasing recycled...

Toby Urff
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12/1/2025
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Four stacked beakers labeled fossil, biogenic, land use change, and total, each filling to different levels to show how the same product’s GWP splits across subcategories.

Environmental impact categories for EPDs, explained

GWP gets the headlines, but specifiers are reading the whole impact table now. If you make...

Eric Hansen
5 min read
12/14/2025
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A four‑pane visual that shows one product icon with carbon arrows flowing into four labeled boxes: fossil, biogenic, land‑use change, and total, like a nutrition label.

EPD impact categories explained, without the jargon

If specifiers scan only one thing in your EPD, it is the impact table. Those numbers decide whether...

Eric Hansen
5 min read
12/14/2025
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A split-screen gauge cluster showing each category as a speedometer, some in green, others approaching red, to visualise trade-offs.

EPD Impact Categories in Plain English

EPDs live or die by a handful of impact categories. Understand what each metric actually measures...

Walker Ryan
5 min read
9/10/2025
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A control lever labeled with increasing cullet percentages that lowers a gauge showing GWP, while a separate performance gauge stays steady.

Boost Recycled Float Glass, Lower GWP Fast

Your EPD’s GWP is a hair too high and reformulation feels risky. Good news. Raising cullet share in...

John Johnson
5 min read
12/1/2025
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Generate an illustration for an article following this concept: Beyond Carbon: Midpoints, Endpoints, Single Scores Carbon steals the spotlight, but specifiers increasingly ask about acidification, smog, water use, and resource depletion. If your EPD only reports GWP, you leave answers, and revenue, on the table. Here is the quick map through midpoint and endpoint indicators, plus how to treat single‑score metrics without tripping over comparability. Ensure that you use no text, as this illustration will be used on international translations of the article.. Use an illustrative style (e.g. isometic) and don't generate in a photorealistic style.

Beyond Carbon: Midpoints, Endpoints, Single Scores

Carbon steals the spotlight, but specifiers increasingly ask about acidification, smog, water use,...

John Johnson
5 min read
1/17/2026
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Generate an illustration for an article following this concept: TRACI 2.2, the North American impact yardstick Spec writers keep asking for TRACI numbers. Product teams keep asking what they mean. Here is the plain‑spoken guide to what TRACI 2.2 measures, why it shows up in EPDs, and how to make sure your next declaration is clean, comparable, and ready for LEED v5 reviews without late‑night recalcs. Ensure that you use no text, as this illustration will be used on international translations of the article.. Use an illustrative style (e.g. isometic) and don't generate in a photorealistic style.

TRACI 2.2, the North American impact yardstick

Spec writers keep asking for TRACI numbers. Product teams keep asking what they mean. Here is the...

Toby Urff
5 min read
12/31/2025
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Generate an illustration for an article following this concept: TRACI 2.1 for Manufacturers TRACI 2.1 sounds like alphabet soup until a spec, an EPD reviewer, or a LEED submission asks for it. This is the impact method most U.S. product EPDs lean on. Know what it measures, how versions differ, and which levers on your line actually move the scores that buyers and project teams watch. Ensure that you use no text, as this illustration will be used on international translations of the article.. Use an illustrative style (e.g. isometic) and don't generate in a photorealistic style.

TRACI 2.1 for Manufacturers

TRACI 2.1 sounds like alphabet soup until a spec, an EPD reviewer, or a LEED submission asks for...

Eric Hansen
5 min read
12/31/2025
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