As many of you are aware, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) published a report in August of 2019 titled, "The Significance of Environmental Attributes as Indicators of the Life Cycle Environmental Impacts of Packaging and Food Service Ware." DEQ wanted to test the assumption that there is a relationship between certain attributes associated with packaging and food service ware and reduced environmental impacts. One of the four attributes they examined was "Compostable".
Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) is often used in reports like this one. While LCA studies are perceived to be precise and objective exercises, they are only as good as their input data and assumptions. BPI Members with expertise in LCA methodology have reviewed the DEQ report (and the LCA studies it assessed), and provided a response to DEQ's conclusions for the "Compostable" attribute.
Click here for a PDF of the Background and Summary Points.
Click here for a PDF of the Complete Response Document.
Click here to see where this information lives on the BPI Website.