Sustainable packaging calculator

Sustainable packaging calculator

Packaging Impact Quick Evaluation Tool (PIQET)

An easy-to-use tool for comparing the environmental impacts of packaging designs.

 

What is PIQET?

PIQET is a streamlined Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tool for optimizing the environmental performance of packaging designs.

 
 

As an online business tool especially designed for the packaging industry, PIQET allows companies to:

+ Quantify and compare the environmental impacts and resource consumption profile of different packaging designs; in essence, how sustainable are they?
+ Continuously assess packaging and product designs from design concept to launch
+ Identify hot spots to improve sustainability throughout the supply chain
+ Compare and benchmark design options and improvements
+ Communicate environmental benefits effectively
+ Build capacity in their teams to integrate sustainability into their business decisions. 

PIQET is a sustainable packaging calculator, which provides all the information to enable material scientists, packaging engineers, marketing professionals and environmental managers to easily complete their own streamlined LCA.

The company is then armed with this critical information to go alongside: cost, structural integrity (fit for purpose), and aesthetics – the four pillars of 21st-century packaging design.

You can take great comfort from knowing that PIQET is based on the ISO 14040 standards for LCA.

 
 
 

The History of PIQET

Designed to assess the environmental impact of packaging resources and processes, the Packaging Impact Quick Evaluation Tool (PIQET) was created to link technical research teams with users.

 
 

The driving factor for PIQET was, and still is, to provide a streamlined approach to Life Cycle Assessments, through quick, online use.

The first online version of PIQET was completed in 2007, being launched officially in 2008. Over the past decade PIQET has provided the consumer goods industry with credible, independent and affordable access to Life Cycle information, assessing environmental impacts of packaging. What has set PIQET apart from other tools is the combination of the most relevant and reputable data and methodology, with a simple but comprehensive interface to undertaken environmental assessment.

Over the past decade, PIQET has provided the consumer goods industry with credible, independent and affordable access to Life Cycle information to evaluate the environmental impacts of packaging. What has set PIQET apart from other tools is the combination of the most relevant and reputable data and methodology with a simple but comprehensive interface to undertaken environmental assessment.

License costs

Our easy-to-use tool for comparing the environmental impacts of packaging designs offers flexible licensing options to meet the needs of both businesses and universities.

AUD Business

  • 1 User $569
    2 Users $969
    5 Users $2,019
    10 Users $3,349

  • 1 User $2,719
    2 Users $4,619
    5 Users $9,529
    10 Users $17,269

  • 1 User $4,949
    2 Users $8,409
    5 Users $17,329
    10 Users $28,789

AUD Academic

  • 10 Users $739
    20 Users $1,169
    30 Users $1,709
    40 Users $2,239

  • 10 Users $1,279
    20 Users $2,139
    30 Users $2,989
    40 Users $3,739

  • 10 Users $2,239
    20 Users $3,849
    30 Users $5,449
    40 Users $6,839

USD Business

  • 1 User $409
    2 Users $699
    5 Users $1,439
    10 Users $2,259

  • 1 User $2,119
    2 Users $3,599
    5 Users $7,409
    10 Users $11,649

  • 1 User $3,529
    2 Users $5,999
    5 Users $12,349
    10 Users $19,409

USD Academic

  • 10 Users $319
    20 Users $529
    30 Users $739
    40 Users $959

  • 10 Users $1,069
    20 Users $1,709
    30 Users $2,459
    40 Users $3,099

  • 10 Users $1,709
    20 Users $2,989
    30 Users $4,169
    40 Users $5,239

GBP Business

  • 1 User £319
    2 Users £549
    5 Users £1,139
    10 Users £2,789

  • 1 User £1,669
    2 Users £2,839
    5 Users £5,849
    10 Users £9,199

  • 1 User £2,789
    2 Users £4,739
    5 Users £9,759
    10 Users £15,329

GBP Academic

  • 10 Users £419
    20 Users £639
    30 Users £959
    40 Users £1,279

  • 10 Users £739
    20 Users £1,279
    30 Users £1,809
    40 Users £2,349

  • 10 Users £1,279
    20 Users £2,239
    30 Users £3,099
    40 Users £3,949

EUR Business

  • 1 User €379
    2 Users €649
    5 Users €1,339
    10 Users €2,099

  • 1 User €1,969
    2 Users €3,339
    5 Users €6,889
    10 Users €10,829

  • 1 User €3,279
    2 Users €5,579
    5 Users €11,489
    10 Users €18,049

EUR Academic

  • 10 Users €529
    20 Users €849
    30 Users €1,169
    40 Users €1,489

  • 10 Users €959
    20 Users €1,599
    30 Users €2,239
    40 Users €2,779

  • 10 Users €1,599
    20 Users €2,669
    30 Users €3,739
    40 Users €4,699

 

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Calculate and compare the environmental impacts of different packaging options easily without the assistance of an LCA expert.