02 — Capability · BC-820.50
Product & Supply Chain Sustainability
Understand the environmental impact of what the organization makes and buys across its life, and push that impact down through design choices and supplier requirements.
- Product Stewardship
- Sustainable Sourcing
- Life Cycle Assessment
In scope
- Life cycle assessment of products
- Restricted substance and material compliance
- Supplier environmental requirements
- Packaging reduction and end-of-life design
Out of scope
- Supplier qualification and contracting as a whole (see BC-640)
- Product design itself (see BC-530)
Decomposes into · 4
- BC-820.50.10Life Cycle AssessmentQuantify a product's environmental impact from raw material to end of life, so design trade-offs are made on numbers.
- BC-820.50.20Restricted Substance ComplianceKnow which substances products may not contain in each market and prove through supplier declarations that they do not.
- BC-820.50.30Supplier Environmental RequirementsSet the environmental expectations suppliers must meet, gather the evidence that they do and act when they do not.
- BC-820.50.40Packaging & End-of-Life DesignReduce packaging and design products so they can be repaired, reused or recovered rather than discarded.