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QuantifyingSustainability

EFFICIENCY IN ECOLOGY, ECONOMY AND SOCIETY



How to MeasureSustainability?

Glass or plastic? Diesel or biodiesel? Chemical process or fermentation?

What makes ecological sense and what is economically efficient?

The findings are sometimes surprising. The Eco-Efficiency Analysis developed by BASF isa tool for assessing products and processes on a comprehensive and comparative basis.

BASF’s Eco-Efficiency Analysis is based on ISO 14040 and 14044 for ecological evaluations.BASF’s method for Eco-Efficiency Analysis is certified by the German Association for Technical Inspection (TÜV) and by the NSF.

Holistic calculation along the whole life cycle.



Life Cycle Inventory, Life Cycle Assessment,

Carbon Footprint, Environmental Product

Declaration, Total Cost of Ownership

■ A Life Cycle Inventory is an inventory of all relevant emissions, material and energyflows (inputs and outputs) along the lifecycle of a product.

■ A Life Cycle Assessment encompassesthe effects on the environment on the basisof the life cycle inventory. This is used tocalculate the effects on the environmentalong the complete life cycle (production,use and disposal). The standards seriesISO 14040 and 14044 gives general rules

for conducting Life Cycle Assessments.Life Cycle Inventories and Life Cycle

Assessments form the basis of every Eco-Efficiency Analysis.

■ A CO2-balance or Carbon Footprint is

part of the Life Cycle Assessment of a prod-uct and is an assessment of the product’sglobal warming potential. Carbon Footprints can be compiled not only for products orprocesses but also for complete compa-

nies. Based on Life Cycle Assessments of numerous products and processes theBASF CO

2-balance was the first company-

wide CO2-balance published.

■ The results of a Life Cycle Assessment of a product can be outlined in an Environ-

mental Product Declaration (EPD). Themain purpose of an environmental decla-ration is to provide easily accessible quality-assured data on the environmental impactof a product or process. This public docu-

ment is an environmental declaration (typeIII) according to ISO 14025.

■ The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) isa cost calculation that not only includes

costs of purchase but also all aspects of subsequent use of the products underconsideration (for example: energy costs,maintenance, environmental protection cost). Thus the cost drivers can be determined.



Eco-Efficiency Analysis

■ BASF, along with Roland Berger StrategyConsultants and other partners, developedthe Eco Efficiency Analysis*, to assessthe sustainability of products and process-es. Over 450 analyses have been carriedout: internally for BASF business units butalso for external partners and customers. The analysis is a comparative method thatassesses alternatives using a Life Cycle Assessment approach with the whole lifecycle of a product or process in a holistic

manner. This includes the environmental im-pact of the raw materials extraction, the use of the product by customers or end consumersas well as options for recycling and disposal.In addition to the categories energy and

resource consumption, wastes, air and wateremissions, the method incorporates the human toxicity/eco-toxicity potential and risk potential.Furthermore, water use and land use associated with the life cycle of a product are assessedas well.

Literature:

WBCSD Congressesn Antwerp, November1993, March 1995 andWashington, November1995, WBCSD publications1996.

A. Kicherer, S. Schaltegger,H. Tschochohei, B. FerreiraPozo, Int J LCA 12 (7) 537(2007)

P. Saling et al,nt J LCA 7 (4) 203 (2002)

R. Landsiedel, P. Saling,nt J LCA 7 (5) 261 (2002)

Eco-Efficiency Label

■ BASF has developed a label to markeco-efficient products. The requirements for using this label are:

• A completed Eco-Efficiency Analysis ac-

cording to BASF’s methodology

• Presentation of a third party evaluation

(so-called Peer Review)

• Publication of the results on the internet

All products with an Eco-Efficiency Labelcan be found under: www.oeea.de.

Application of Eco-Efficiency Analysis

■ STRATEGY

Assisting strategic decision-making (loca-

tion of a new production site, investment)

■ RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Facilitating the identification of product andprocess improvements

■ MARKETING

Enhancing product differentiation and improv-

ing customer retention

■ PUBLIC RELATIONS

Supporting dialogue with opinion makers,NGOs and politicians

Eco-Efficiency-Analysis has become a standard tool within the BASF Group, used in the

following areas:

Example



■ Case Study Mineral Water Packaging An Eco-Efficiency Analysis conducted byBASF on behalf of the Gerolsteiner Groupcompared alternative forms of mineral wa-ter packaging. This revealed the followingsurprising findings:

• Although reusable glass bottles arecheapest to produce, distribute and sell,when viewed over the whole life cyclethey have the greatest impact on theenvironment.

•

Beverage cartons are the most expensivealternative.

• The most eco-efficient alternative is the

5 l Office Line – it is far more eco-friendly thanbeverage cartons or the reusable glass bottleand only slightly more expensive than theglass bottle.

• The PET one-way bottle has a comparable

Eco-Efficiency to the glass bottle.

Eco-Efficiency Internet-Manager

■ The Eco-Efficiency Internet-Manager is

a useful tool when products or production

process inputs are varied regularly (to meet

the requirements of different customers,

for example). Prerequisite is a completed

Eco-Efficiency Analysis. A new Eco-Effi-

ciency Portfolio is calculated as often as

required simply by entering new para-

meters. Thus one Eco- Efficiency Analysis

can cover a whole family of related prod-

ucts. It can answer different questions

based on the existing models by scenario

analyses.

Example

HighEco-Efficiency

Low

Eco-Efficiency

Energy consumption

Emissions Land use

Toxicity Potential Resource consumption

Risk Potential

6 x 1,5 l PET,one way

12 x 0,7 l glass,returnable bottle

12 x 1 l beveragecartons, one-way

2 x 5 l Office Line,one-way



SEEBALANCE ®

■ SEEBALANCE®

refers to the SocioEco-Efficiency-Analysis developed by BASF**.It is an innovative tool which not only pro-vides an assessment of the environmentalimpact and costs of products and process-es, but also of the societal impact. The aimis to unify and quantify the performanceof all three pillars of sustainability with oneintegrated tool for product or processassessment. The societal impact is repre-sented by several evaluation categories.

Assessed are a set of indicators consider-ing the whole life cycle.

This method was developed in collabora-tion with the Öko-Institut Freiburg and theUniversities of Jena and Karlsruhe as partof a project of the German ministry of

research and education.

*Literature:

D. Kölsch, P. Saling,A. Kicherer, A. Grosse-Sommer, I. Schmidt (2007):How to Measure SocialImpacts? What is theSEEBALANCE® about? –Socio-Eco-Efficiency

Analysis: The Method.In: International Journal of Sustainable DevelopmentVol. II, No. 1, 2008.

www.basf.com/group/ corporate/de/sustainability/ eco-efficiency-analysis/ seebalance



SEEBALANCE ® Methodology

■ The societal impacts of the SEEBAL- ANCE® are grouped into five stakeholdercategories:

• employees,• international community,• future generations,• consumers,• local & national community.

For each of these stakeholder categoriesmeasurable indicators are considered. Indi-

cators for these categories include amongothers the number of employees, occupa-tional diseases occurring during productionbut also risks involved product use by theend consumer. The societal indicators,analogous to the environmental ones, aresummarized in a social impact score.

Inclusion of the additional (societal) axisresults in the triangle graph that also canbe summarized in a single overall result. It

can be shown clearly which alternative isthe most sustainable solution for a definedapplication. All three dimensions of sustain-ability are considered in this analyticalapproach.

The aim of the visualization is to summarizethe complex numbers into a form that iseasily understood by decision makers andstakeholders in the areas of marketing,R&D, strategy and politics. Results can beused to find weaknesses, show market op-portunities, support strategic decision-making as well as effective communication.Scenarios can show the different effects of the input factors on the results. This flexibletool supports the improvement of product

solutions in a very effective manner.

SEEBALANCE®

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Working Conditionsfor Employees

Working Conditionsfor Employees

working accidentsworking accidents

fatal workingaccidents

fatal workingaccidents

occupational diseasesoccupational diseases

toxicity potential +transport

toxicity potential +transport

wages and salarieswages and salaries

professional training(company

expenditures)

professional training(company

expenditures)

strikes and lockoutsstrikes and lockouts

Social ProfileSocial Profile

Local and NationalCommunity

Local and NationalCommunity

employeesemployees

qualified employeesqualified employees

gender equalitygender equality

integration of handicapped people

integration of handicapped people

part time workerspart time workers

family supportfamily support

Future GenerationFuture Generation

number of traineesnumber of trainees

R&D (companyexpenditures)

R&D (companyexpenditures)

capital investmentscapital investments

social securitysocial security

InternationalCommunity

InternationalCommunity

child labourchild labour

foreign directinvestment

foreign directinvestment

imports fromdeveloping countries

imports fromdeveloping countries

ConsumerConsumer

toxicity potentialtoxicity potential

other risks andfunctional product

characteristics

other risks andfunctional product

characteristics

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Tel. +49 621 60-79777

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E-mail [email protected]

You can find more information at:

www.ecoefficiency.basf.com

Our assessment methods and tools are: Eco-Efficiency Analysis, Eco-Efficiency

Internet-Manager, Labels, SEEBALANCE®, Life Cycle Inventory, Life Cycle Assessment,

Total Cost of Ownership, Environmental Product Declaration, Carbon Footprint,

Sustainability Evaluation and Sustainability Consulting.

Impacts onenvironment

Impacts on environ-ment and costs

Impacts onenvironment,costs and society

Life cycle costs

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