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wienerberger UK and Ireland has published Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for its UK manufactured brick and roof tiles, supporting customers in their search for transparent and accessible sustainability data.
The publication of factory-level EPDs is the latest step in wienerberger’s sustainability strategy, which outlines the transition to a net-zero emission, nature-positive company.
EPDs are standardised and externally verified documents that set out a product’s environmental impact across its entire life cycle, from raw material extraction through the manufacturing, installation, operational and disposal/recycling phases. They provide data on impacts such as carbon emissions, water use and secondary materials.
By accessing the EPDs from the wienerberger website, customers can obtain the embodied carbon for wienerberger’s brick and roof tile products and improve the accuracy of their supply chain emissions accounting.
wienerberger head of sustainability, Stephanie Palmer, said: “Publishing EPDs for our UK-manufactured bricks and roof tiles empowers our customers to make more informed choices. We’re committed to transparency and accessibility, and have invested a significant amount of time in getting to this point, with comprehensive EPD documents explaining the modelling scenarios we have used.”
