About

• Unique tool for the P-O-P industry measuring the environmental impact from design to end of life.

• Provides a reporting framework to clients to support their environmental targets and ability to benchmark against different iterations or comparisons of past and present displays.

• It concludes with recommendations for improvement including how to reduce the CO2e, water, recycled content, renewability and recyclability of displays.

• Gives an independent analysis of the environmental performance for retail displays and point of sale.

POPAI’s Sustain® tool is trusted globally and used in 36 countries by more than 100 organisations producing display for 450 global brands and retailers.

The annual fee allows unlimited users and unlimited projects on a per country basis.

Countries Sustain® is currently used in include:

• Australia
• Brazil
• Canada 
• Costa Rica
• Czech Republic
• Dominican Republic
• Denmark
• Ecuador
• Egypt
• El Salvador
• France
• Germany
• Greece & Turkey
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• India
• Ireland
• Italy & the Adriatic
• Kenya
• Netherlands
• Nicaragua
• Nigeria
• Pakistan
• Panama
• Poland
• Scandinavia
• South Africa
• Spain & Portugal
• Sweden
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Turkey
• UAE
• UK
• Ukraine
• Uruguay
• USA

The tool has a user friendly interface making it easy to use with no technical knowledge of the properties of raw materials or manufacturing processes needed.

Sustain® uses EcoInvent, the world’s most consistent and transparent life cycle inventory database for its calculations.

It supports environmental assessments of products and processes worldwide and contributes to the accuracy, consistency and quality of the assessments undertaken using the tool.

Sustain® works to Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) principles and conforms to the main requirements of 14067-1 and the GHG Protocol Product Life Cycle Accounting and Reporting Standard.