The Carbon Trust announced nine leading companies will make up a new wave of partners to use the draft product carbon footprinting standard, currently being developed in partnership with Defra and BSI British Standards.
The new partners and products are as follows:
- Aggregate Industries - Hard landscaping products (paving stones etc)
- Cadbury Schweppes – Cadbury Dairy Milk bars
- Coca-Cola – A sparkling beverage and a still beverage from its product range
- The Co-operative Group – 200g and 400g punnet strawberries
- Halifax – Halifax Web Saver Account
- Kimberly-Clark – Andrex Toilet Tissue and Huggies nappies
- Marshalls – Hard landscaping products (paving stones etc)
- Mϋller Dairy (UK) Limited – One type of yoghurt from its product range
- Scottish & Newcastle – Fosters Lager and Bulmers Original Cider
The new pilot partners will use the draft standard to calculate the embodied carbon emissions of selected products. It is the intention of the partners to reduce product carbon emissions and to work together with the Carbon Trust to explore the best way to communicate this information to consumers.