Clean Production Action's Plastic Scorecard

The Scorecard’s design is guided by three core principles: Sustainable Feedstocks, Green Chemistry and Closed Loop Systems....Based in life cycle thinking, the Scorecard evaluates and categorizes plastic products based on environmental benchmarks for 1) feedstock production, 2) chemical and plastics manufacturing, 3) use and 4) end of life....

The most environmentally preferred plastic products are safer to humans and the environment across their entire life cycle: from the growing or extracting of raw materials to manufacturing the plastics to using the plastic products to managing them at the end of their useful life.

The Plastics Scorecard grades plastic materials from Grade F to Grade A+ depending on their life cycle performance.

See the beta score cards for:

Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) (.pdf)

Polylactic Acid (PLA) (.pdf)

Polypropylene (PP) (.pdf)

Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) (.pdf)