Eco-Profile
An eco-profile is a useful tool for fully determining Ingeo's environmental impact. The profile adds up all of the inputs & outputs from our manufacturing process (like water to grow feedstocks, CO2 sequestered by plants, energy to produce fertilizers, and greenhouse gases emitted by our facilities) from the field to the polymer factory exit gate...or from the plants being grown to boxes of Ingeo leaving our plant in Blair, NE. This calculation helps us determine Ingeo's impact on several indicators including greenhouse gas emissions and non-renewable energy use.
Comparing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Two key indicators in a product's environmental footprint are greenhouse gases (GHG's) and non-renewable energy use. Measuring these two impacts and comparing data between Ingeo and traditional polymers (like PET & PS), provides a good insight into how Ingeo performs. For a final, definite comparison, the tool of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) should be used. In the two charts below the latest Ingeo data is compared with the most recent industry data for European & American products as published by PlasticsEurope and APC respectively. The Ingeo data reflects work done in tandem with Thinkstep (PE INTERNATIONAL) using their GaBi LCA software and their latest LCA database following ISO 14040 & 14044 standards.
Production Greenhouse Gas Emissions Including Biogenic Carbon Uptake *1
Comparing Non-Renewable Energy Use
Primary Energy of Non-Renewable Resources **
Note:
*Uptake of atmospheric CO2 during crop production, which ends up in the biopolymer produced.
** Total use of primary energy sources like natural gas, coal, oil and nuclear.
*** Boustead data, not recently updated.
**** Not available for the US
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All of our environmental data has been reviewed and published in well-known journals to provide transparency in our claims.
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1Data on EU production from Plastics Europe. Data on US production from American Chemistry Council.