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Furniture Footprinter
The furniturefootprinter™ is the premier carbon footprint calculator for the furniture industry. The online tool, with its unique ‘drag and drop’ capability allows all parties within the furniture supply chain to quickly and easily generate and compare carbon footprints for their businesses and products.
This world class product has been developed by FIRA in partnership with leading environmental consultants Best Foot Forward.
The furniturefootprinter™ is a revolutionary analysis and accounting tool developed to help companies within the furniture supply chain reduce their carbon footprints.
The easy to use, cost effective, secure, web-based tool is compatible with existing and emerging national and international standards. It is accessible to multiple users within an organisation and is supported by accurate, comprehensive data, which are retained on secure servers to allow ongoing analysis.
When combined with FIRA’s carbon footprint verification scheme, which defines the accounting boundaries of product and company footprints for the furniture sector, the furniturefootprinter™ allows companies to compare their products with the market on a like for like basis.
furniturefootprinter™ - main features:
• Calculates the carbon and ecological footprints of products, processes, projects and companies
• Compares the impacts of different product or project options
• Identifies areas where significant improvements can be made
• Creates easy to understand reports and charts
• Helps to raise employee awareness
• Demonstrates continuous improvement
• Stores your data and is continuously updated to reflect the latest footprint figures
FIRA's role is to assist the furniture supply chain to improve its competitiveness and profitability. We will guide you through the data collection and footprinting processes and will offer advice to ensure that your carbon and ecological impacts are minimised using practical and cost effective solutions.
Carbon Footprint
Footprinting is a natural addition to our strong environmental and business support portfolio, which includes the Furniture Industry Sustainability Programme (FISP), Club Green, lean processes, supply chain management, sustainable timber purchasing and environmental management (ISO 14001).
Best Foot Forward
The Footprinter software has been created using a model devised by Best Foot Forward (BFF), a leading light in the development of carbon and ecological accounting. Best Foot Forward has received the Queen's Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development and has worked on footprint projects with organisations such as GlaxoSmithKline, the NHS, Virgin Trains and the rock band, Radiohead. BFF already has a presence in the furniture sector having worked closely with Herman Miller and Orangebox.
Environmental Standards
furniturefootprinter™ is designed to be fully compliant with ISO 14064-1 which, sets out how organisations should monitor and quantify their emissions which in turn is compliant with the WRI (World Resources Institute) and WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development) Green House Gas protocol. The protocol takes the approach of identifying emissions by 'scope'. Scope 1 being direct usage on site, Scope 2 being emissions caused by power or energy consumption but emitted off site (e.g. electricity and steam) and Scope 3 being a much wider category of indirect emissions such as transport or emissions from the supply chain. As well as reporting by operational area (utilities, transport, etc), furniturefootprinter™ also reports by 'Scope' for simple standard compliant reporting.
For more information please visit the Furniture Footprinter Website, contact Customer Services on 01438 777 700 or email info@fira.co.uk
