Footwear Environmental Impact Calculator

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Sustainable footwear, it’s not an issue of when but how

The focus of sustainable footwear lies in creating shoes that are not only long-lasting and comfortable, but also minimise their ecological footprint across all stages of their existence. This encompasses various aspects, including sourcing materials, manufacturing processes, distribution, usage, and eventual disposal or recycling.

By considering these factors, companies in the footwear industry can make substantial progress towards achieving sustainability goals. This not only aids in reducing environmental harm, but also meets the growing consumer demand for ethically-produced goods.

Eurofins Footwear Environmental Impact Calculator

Our Footwear Environmental Impact Calculator is a simple-to-use and cost-effective online calculator tool, helping footwear brands and retailers make assessments to identify potential hotspots and key sustainability improvement target areas within their supply chain.

The Footwear Environmental Impact Calculator evaluates the complete supply chain for a pair of shoes and its packaging. It provides users with the ability to analyse footwear profiles and comprehend possible environmental repercussions from distinct materials and components, manufacturing and sales locations, retail pathways, and the extent of customer use (wear).

How it works?

The Impact Calculator uses a combination of the environmental footprint impact assessment methods. The reported environmental impact indicators are:

Climate change (referred to as ‘Carbon footprint’ in this tool)
Land use
Water use

The impact of a product is then ranked across four different rating scales, each of the above three indicators, plus an overall rating expressed as a normalised weighted average of all three impact categories.

A rank of zero stars indicates that a product has the highest environmental impact out of all possible shoe configurations in the same shoe type category. A rank of five stars indicates that a product has the lowest environmental impact relative to shoes in the same category.

This tool is intended to be used as a screening tool. The Impact Calculator estimates a product’s environmental footprint based on Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) principles but does not replace a full LCA study.

Benefits of Footwear Environmental Impact Calculator

Internet-based, eliminating the need for any downloaded software
Flexible payment options with either ‘Pay-As-You-Go’ or subscription-based service
Rapid assessment completion is possible in mere minutes
Provision of meaningful data that can create action points
User-friendly design requiring no specific expertise
Cost-effective solution for sustainability assessments