Zeus Packaging, one of Europe\u2019s leading sustainable packaging providers, has today launched Zeus Sustain Carbon IQ its first customer-facing digital platform designed to help businesses better understand, compare, and manage the environmental & economic impact of their packaging choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Offered as part of the company\u2019s expanding Zeus Sustain initiative, Carbon IQ allows customers to estimate packaging-related impacts such as carbon footprint, eco-cost, and energy demand, and compare material and design alternatives using a simplified life cycle assessment (LCA) approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Carbon IQ functions as a carbon mapping software, designed to map emissions across the packaging value chain and offer intelligent insights into potential carbon reduction opportunities through discussion with Zeus\u2019s packaging teams. It includes visibility into Scope 3 emissions, allowing customers to understand the upstream and downstream impact of their packaging decisions critical for meeting corporate carbon reduction targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Developed in collaboration with sustainability software experts Nutritics, Carbon IQ draws on leading environmental data sources including IDEMAT and reflects packaging characteristics across key life cycle stages. Product data is refreshed annually to ensure insights remain up to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCarbon IQ gives our teams and our customers greater visibility into packaging performance,\u201d said\u00a0Declan Breen<\/strong>, Head of Sustainability at Zeus Packaging. \u201cIt supports more informed, measurable choices by bringing environmental data directly into packaging conversations. It has been designed to assist our customers & suppliers in reducing scope 3 emissions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/strong>Key Features of Carbon IQ:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Carbon IQ is now live across Zeus\u2019 operations in the UK, Ireland, and continental Europe, and is being used internally by procurement and sales teams, as well as externally with customers, to help identify footprint hotspots and support progress toward broader Scope 3 emission reduction goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWith the ever-increasing impact of Packaging Regulation, particularly the impact of EPR on costs across our industry, it is essential that businesses are able to navigate alternative packaging solutions that mitigate the impact of packaging tax, provide an understanding of how they can cut emissions, but also sensibly evaluate the economics. The strength of Carbon IQ lies in its clarity and ease of use,\u201d added\u00a0Keith Ockenden<\/strong>, CEO of Zeus Packaging. \u201cIt helps customers evaluate the impact of different packaging formats using recognised environmental data and expert-driven frameworks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Zeus Packaging, one of Europe\u2019s leading sustainable packaging providers, has today launched Zeus Sustain Carbon IQ its first customer-facing digital platform designed to help businesses better understand, compare, and manage the environmental & economic impact of their packaging choices. Offered as part of the company\u2019s expanding Zeus Sustain initiative, Carbon IQ allows customers to estimate packaging-related impacts such as carbon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1078],"class_list":{"0":"post-19278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corrugated-folding-carton","8":"tag-zeus-packaging"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19280,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19278\/revisions\/19280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Input product specifications including materials, manufacturing processes, and transport data to generate environmental performance metrics.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Benchmark packaging alternatives side-by-side to support more sustainable selection decisions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Understand indicative performance across key stages of the packaging life cycle. (Where available, end-of-life scenarios are included based on current disposal assumptions.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Products are assigned\u00a0A\u2013E ratings\u00a0for carbon, eco-cost, and energy demand, using a custom methodology developed in collaboration with Nutritics. (These ratings are intended to support comparison but are not aligned to any industry-wide standard.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Enables users to evaluate not only the environmental performance of packaging options, but also the\u00a0price impact\u00a0of alternative materials, formats, and supply routes\u2014providing a balanced view of sustainability\u00a0and cost-efficiency.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n