The abil­i­ty of C2CP to reli­ably deter­mine the envi­ron­men­tal per­for­mance of products

Niko­lay Minkov, Vanes­sa Bach and Matthias Finkbein­er from the TU Berlin have pub­lished a sci­en­tif­ic paper in the jour­nal Sus­tain­abil­i­ty of the pub­lish­er MDPI (Mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary Dig­i­tal Pub­lish­ing Insti­tute) assess­ing the abil­i­ty of the Cra­dle to Cra­dle Cer­ti­fied™ Prod­ucts Pro­gram (C2CP) to Reli­ably Deter­mine the Envi­ron­men­tal Per­for­mance of Products.

Ic2cpn this work, the abil­i­ty of C2CP to reli­ably deter­mine the envi­ron­men­tal per­for­mance of prod­ucts was ana­lyzed through the appli­ca­tion of a cri­te­ria-based assess­ment scheme. Addi­tion­al­ly, to com­pare C2CP with three oth­er already estab­lished tools (life cycle assess­ment, prod­uct envi­ron­men­tal foot­print and mate­r­i­al flow analy­sis), the same cri­te­ria-based scheme was applied. Results show that C2CP is not sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly reli­able enough to assure that cer­ti­fied prod­ucts actu­al­ly have a good envi­ron­men­tal performance.
 
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In March 2018 , anoth­er sci­en­tif­ic paper to char­ac­ter­iz­ing the Cra­dle to Cra­dle Cer­ti­fied ™ Prod­ucts Pro­gram was pub­lished by them in the same journal.