LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS
Get clarity on your supply chain and impact
The Melt helps organisations to understand the full impact of their activities, improve their sustainability performance and provide verified results to investors and potential customers by undertaking Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) projects.
What is the case for a LCA?
Investor requirement
Investors require an understanding of scope 1, scope 2 and scope 3 emissions and other impact indicators to inform their investment decisions and capital allocation.
Reporting requirements
The upcoming IFRS S1 and IFRS S2 reporting disclosures will require reporting organisations to disclose their sustainability-related risks and opportunities, and this will impact startups and scaleups that provide services to listed companies among others.
Sustainable decision-making
Organisations can use the evidence based insights and metrics to inform sustainable decision making from small details like material selection through to business strategy and competitive advantage.
Combat greenwashing
Markets and regulators are cracking down on greenwashing. Meaning that organisations must be able to validate and verify their claims using sound, data-driven methodologies – or face fines and corrective action.
Enhance reputation
Prove to investors, customers and stakeholders that you are serious about sustainability and your commitment to Net Zero, and leverage this as your competitive advantage.
Benefits to partnering with us
Fit for purpose products for your size and maturity
Dedicated technical expertise to support you
Best practice methodology
External peer review
Deep hardware, deep tech and climate tech expertise
A solution for wherever you are on your journey
Starter
Get initial view on your impact and inform decision making-
Cradle to customer use
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Single product
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Impact indicators of CO2-e and most relevant impact indicators
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Dashboard and some documentation of assumptions and results
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Peer review (extra)
Enhance
Demonstrate impact to potential customers, investors and other stakeholders-
Cradle to customer use
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Comparison between product and alternative product
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Impact indicators of CO2-e and most relevant impact indicators
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Dashboard and detailed report
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Peer review
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Optional extra: reports can be delivered in an ISO compliant format and critical review process
Scale
Demonstrate impact to potential customers, investors and other stakeholders-
Cradle to grave
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Single product
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Impact indicators of CO2-e and most relevant impact indicators
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Dashboard and detailed report
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Peer review
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Optional extra: reports can be delivered in an ISO compliant format and critical review process
Pro
Comprehensive LCA across the entire product lifecycle to demonstrate impact-
Cradle to cradle
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Option of single product or comparison
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Impact indicators of CO2-e and most relevant impact indicators
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Dashboard and detailed report
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Peer review
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Yes, reports can be delivered in an ISO compliant format and critical review process
Getting started
1. Discovery
Click ‘Let's Talk’ to book a discovery session with The Melt to understand your mission and product and how a LCA would look for your organisation.
2. Scoping & onboarding
We work with you to determine the best product for you based on your size, maturity and needs; and understand your product in detail and onboard you.
3. Data collection
You’ll be supported through the streamlined data collection process to get all the primary data needed to undertake the LCA and collaborate where secondary data or assumptions may be needed.
4. Analysis & reporting
We do the heavy lifting on the analysis, conduct the external peer review and provide the dashboard and report to you. We take you through the insights and results from the LCA making sure you've got clarity.
Who is it for?
A LCA is increasingly required by seed to series B stage companies and beyond, particularly for those operating in the climate tech, hardware and physical product space. These companies need a fit for purpose LCA for every stage due to the nature of their customers and the problems they are solving, with the difference across stages being the level of complexity of the analysis.
FAQs
There are three products:
- Starter: cradle to customer for single product . LCA analysing single product system across its life cycle from cradle to gate with dashboard insights and some documentation of assumptions and results.
- Scale: cradle to grave for single product OR cradle to customer for comparison between single product and alternative product system (eg reference system). A fully documented LCA comparing alternative scenarios from cradle to grave with detailed data collection, inventory, methodology and insights. The LCA reports can be delivered in an ISO compliant format and be put through an ISO critical review process (if desired).
- Pro: cradle to cradle for single product (and to a comparison system). A fully documented LCA comparing alternative scenarios from cradle to cradle with detailed data collection, inventory, methodology and insights. The LCA reports can be delivered in an ISO compliant format and be put through an ISO critical review process (if desired).
The Melt primarily performs LCA projects for hardware, climate tech and deep tech companies, and for organisations creating physical products.
Yes, we support companies operating across Australia.
The report is designed to be easy to understand so that a reasonable person could understand the results of the LCA.
Accordingly, you will typically be provided:
- a user-friendly dashboard to present the results in an easily understandable format; and
- a report detailing the results of the analysis of the life cycle, key assumptions and data sources and peer review sign-off.