The analysis is enabled by a unique combination of technologies and methodologies including material flow analysis, industrial metabolism, life cycle assessment, and value chain analysis.

Key Benefits

• Interactive, easy-to-use platform for analyzing complex value chains.

• Analysis of both economic and environmental impacts of material and energy flowing through an operation – in a single framework.

• Top-down estimate of material quantities ending up in the waste stream.

• Full economic and life-cycle environmental impacts of material waste.

• Detailed breakdown of waste composition, prioritized by economic and environmental opportunities (i.e., cost saving potential, emissions reduction potential, etc.).

• Corporate scope 3 GHG emissions analysis and reporting – along with scope 1 and scope 2 emissions -- and other environmental metrics.

Applications

Analysis and results from MetaFlowScope^™ can be used in a wide variety of applications to increase resource efficiency and positively impact the bottom line:

• Waste reduction: produce direct cost savings and lower environmental footprints by reducing the avoidable waste in your operation.

• Waste diversion: extract economic value by diverting valuable components of your waste stream to useful applications (either within your operation or elsewhere) and simultaneously reducing disposal costs, while lowering overall environmental footprints.

• Material substitution: explore the use of alternative materials (including recycled materials) to reduce cost and/or environmental footprints.

• Energy substitution: explore the use of alternative and renewable energy (including on-site energy generation) to reduce cost and/or environmental footprint.

• Process optimization: analyze the impacts of more efficient manufacturing and other internal processes.

• Product redesign: analyze the projected effects of product redesigns that use alternative materials, lower amounts of materials/energy, and redesigned processes.

• GHG emissions reporting: corporate scope 3 GHG emissions across value chains, along with scope 1 and scope 2 emissions.

• Other environmental reporting: metrics such as water use, energy use, solid waste, and wastewater – within organizational boundaries and across value chains.