London, September 2025 – Sustainability Management Software Company, Altruistiq has launched a new cradle-to-grave Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) measurement capability. The new capability gives major food, drink, and packaging businesses full lifecycle coverage for their products. This includes downstream emissions from distribution, consumer use, and end-of-life.
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Measuring downstream emissions - which can be a significant part of a product’s footprint - has long been a challenge in PCF assessment. Altruistiq’s new function addresses this, helping businesses generate complete, credible assessments that support informed sustainability decisions and compliance with emerging reporting standards.
Each downstream stage is modelled in detail: transport and storage emissions are estimated using product weight, distance, and refrigeration needs; consumer-phase energy use is simulated based on category-specific patterns; and country-specific waste-treatment data is applied for more than 100 countries. Businesses can input their own company-specific data, ensuring rigorous assessments that are both regulator-ready and tailored to their operations. This approach provides a consistent source of truth for lifecycle emissions, enabling data-driven decisions across packaging, logistics, and product design.
The capability is built on the EU Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) methodology and Circular Footprint Formula. It is consistent with ISO 14067 requirements for product carbon footprinting and with the GHG Protocol Scope 3 guidance for downstream categories.
“Downstream emissions are a major blind spot for many companies, but can make up >20% of Scope 3 emissions.They’re often modelled with generic assumptions or left out of the picture entirely due to being hard to measure. That needs to change.”
“Now, our customers can model reliable, science-based data at a Product Footprint level, on everything from transport and storage to consumer use and end-of-life treatment - all in one place. Filling this gap doesn’t just tick a reporting box. It empowers businesses to make smarter decisions that drive real, measurable emissions reductions.”
Said Jamie Dujardin, VP Product at Altruistiq.
The launch advances Altruistiq’s goal of delivering robust, actionable sustainability insights for food, drink, and packaging businesses facing increasing environmental disclosure requirements.
The new downstream emissions features will be available from September 8th via the Altruistiq platform. An online product demonstration will be available on October 1st.
Altruistiq is a leading sustainability management software company that unifies corporate and product footprinting with supply chain engagement on a single platform. Supported by expert services and leveraging decades of sustainability expertise, our platform automates emissions data collection and calculation across Scopes 1, 2, and 3, using over 220,000 verified emissions factors.
The platform delivers ISO 14064-assured insights whilst integrating real-time emissions data with impact modelling tools, helping organisations set climate targets and build credible, actionable decarbonisation roadmaps. Trusted by leading consumer goods companies worldwide, Altruistiq enables customers to deliver high-impact climate programmes with measurable business results.
Headquartered in London, Altruistiq is committed to enabling a transparent and science-based approach to corporate climate action.
More information can be found at https://altruistiq.com/
Written by
India Knott
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