Clients
Big or Small, Help Them All

The LinkCycle team bring along a broad experience of in depth studies and projects

Nike Strategy consulting for transparency initiative in Nike Lab More »
EnergyPoints Help develop methodology of EnergyPoints quantification system More »
Oil Refinery Sought best end-of-life option for waste oil recycling More »
Past Publications Gutowski, T. Sahni, S. Boustani, A. Graves, S. Reman More »
Life Cycle Databases More »
PKG Packaging Sustainability strategy consulting for green marketing More »
PCA Climate impacts of concrete pavements for nationwide GHG reduction strategy More »
Conifer Inc. We compared GHG emissions of dry soup versus canned soup alternative More »
Vega One We compared climate impacts of their vegan smoothie to meat-based breakfast More »

Nike

Sector: Apparel
Type of study: Project through MIT Leadership Lab to help build transparency initiative in Nike's Sustainable Business and Innovation Labs.
Objective: Under non-disclosure
Benefits: Under non-disclosure
Description:
Strategy consulting for transparency initiative in Nike Lab
Conclusion: Under non-disclosure

EnergyPoints

Sector: Sustainability Analysis
Type of study: Life cycle embodied energy analysis, Cost / payback analysis
Objective: We analyzed and quantified the energy use due to four different waste management strategies in 6 different cities. We analyzed the energy payback period for solar installation in major US cities, for different solar technolo
Description:
Help develop methodology of EnergyPoints quantification system

Oil Refinery

Past Publications

Life Cycle Databases

PKG Packaging

Sector: Packaging
Type of study: Strategic sustainability consulting, Life cycle assessment, Competitor analysis
Objective: To find best use of LCA information by conducting survey of competitive landscape of materials and market pathways and opportunities for their biodegradable packaging product
Description:
Sustainability strategy consulting for green marketing

PCA

Sector: Construction
Type of study: Life cycle assessment, Policy analysis, Life cycle costing
Objective: Research project done through MIT's Concrete Sustainability Hub to offer a comprehensive approach to evaluate and improve the environmental impacts of pavements
Benefits: 64-80% of emissions are during materials production, transportation, and end of life. 3 broad reduction areas are: embodied emissions, use phase, and end of life.
Description:
Climate impacts of concrete pavements for nationwide GHG reduction strategy
Conclusion: Click here to read report

Conifer Inc.

Sector: Food and Beverage
Type of study: Comparative LCA
Objective: Through a comparative LCA, LinkCycle collaborated with Conscious Brands to analyze Conifer's dry soup product and compared it to the canned soup alternative.
Benefits: Conifer learned that their product has 50% less life cycle greenhouse gas emissions as compared to the canned soup alternative. An interesting additional benefit that was discovered is that Conifer was sourcing its dried car
Description:
We compared GHG emissions of dry soup versus canned soup alternative
Conclusion: We discovered that dry soup has reduced product weight and associated transportation burden, but the greatest virtue of the product is that it utilizes thin cellophane packaging rather than heavy steel cans, which are environ

Vega One

Sector: Food and Beverage
Type of study: Comparative LCA
Objective: LinkCycle and Conscious Brands worked together to evaluate the cradle-to-gate greenhouse gas emissions of a plant and fruit-derived smoothie as compared to two dairy and meat-based breakfast options: cereal and milk, and a ba
Benefits: Able to bring science-backed, credible information to customers about not only personal health, but also environmental performance of their product.
Description:
We compared climate impacts of their vegan smoothie to meat-based breakfast
Conclusion: Together we discovered that indeed the expected life cycle GHG emissions is lower per calorie and per USDA serving for the Vega One product. In fact, per USDA serving, a smoothie with Vega One has 1/3 less emissions than cer