The Living Product Challenge calls on manufacturers to create Net Positive impact at two different scales: Site scale (final manufacturing facility), and Life Cycle scale (with Handprints exceeding the cradle-to-gate Footprint). Note that the LPC currently requires Net Positivity at different scales for different impact areas, as shown in the table below. For waste, only site-level Net Positivity is currently required. For Carbon, only life cycle net Positivity is required. And for water and energy, Net Positivity at both scales is required.
Table 1: LPC looks at multiple impact areas implicated in production of products and requires that manufacturers offset (become Net Positive for) either the final manufacturing production impacts, the cradle-to-gate life cycle impacts, or both. The above table indicates which scope is required for each impact area within LPC 2.0. Note that social co-benefits in I18, explained here, are not the creation of environmental Handprints but rather are socio-economic benefits, associated with the production of Handprints.
