Page 15 - Organico Realfoods Carbon Report

PRODUCT FOOTPRINT

DOING THE MATHS

Raw
Raw materials
extraction Materials
Functional Unit Processing
We’re accounting by Fiscal or Financial
Year which for us runs from October to Inputs to
September. Our first carbon accounting ORGANISATION FOOTPRINT Meal Farming
year then is for the year up to September Waste System
2020.
Scope Activity Tonnes CO2e Recycling
We used Carbon Footprint Ltd to assess both our Landfill
organisation AND product footprint. Organisation
footprint follows guidance by the Greenhouse Gas Scope 2 Electricity consumption (Scope 2 and 4.52 Preparation Waste Waste Farming
Protocol using 2020 emission factors developed
Natural
Energy
by DEFRA and BEIS for reporting emissions. This Scope 2 sub total 4.52 Environment Recovery
assessment encompassed our office electricity
consumption (Scope 2) and all business travel Scope 3 Flights 0.90
(Scope 3). For our product footprint a tool based
on proxy calculations was used based on ISO Employee-owned car travel (grey fleet) 0.53 Organico
14067-2018 and the GHG Protocol guidelines.
Our organisation footprint Rail travel 0.1 Manufacturing
was offset by a VCS certified Scope 3 sub total 1.44
UK tree planting project.
Total location-based emissions 5.96 Retail Distribution

THE SCIENCE BIT:

Scope 1, 2 and 3 are the official carbon accounting headers defined by the GHC protocol
to categorise different emissions.
FROM CRADLE Carbon Breakdown by Activity

Scope 1 covers industrial process emissions, company vehicles and fugitive emissions
like leakage from refrigeration. Scope 2 emissions cover purchased electricity. Scope 3 TO GATE
is basically everything else. Transport
to us 10%
We’re accounting for all our products & to
An organisation footprint includes travel to and for work from Scope 3. For any trading inclusive of the farming of the ingredients Customer
2%
company the largest CO2 emissions come from the product manufacture and in food and the production, packaging and transport
it’s FALU component and, further downstream, the preparation and disposal footprint. of our products to the shop. Retail, consumer
and waste emissions – “cradle to grave” are Packaging Food
Sourcing
SCOPE 1 NOT included in our assessment. We take 27% 61%
SCOPE 2 DIRECT responsibility upstream and down to the
INDIRECT
point at which we sell the product.

Transportation &
Distribution
Company Facilities
SCOPE 3
Purchased goods Leased
& Services Assets INDIRECT CARBON BREAKDOWN BY BRAND
Processing of
Capital goods sold products Investments
Employee
Commuting Use of sold
Fuel & Energy products Franchises
related activities Business Travel
Leased Assets
Transportation &
Distribution Company Vehicles 401.42 319.25 207.54 5.96
Business End-of-life treatment of
Waste generated Travel sold porducts
in operations
UPSTREAM ACTIVITIES REPORTING COMPANY DOWNSTREAM ACTIVITIES

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