Sustainable Apparel Coalition

Description

Polyurethane-based foamed rubber product that is produced by using a foaming agent with polyurethane to create an air-filled matrix. Foamed rubbers can sprayed, poured, or molded into an application.

Impacts

	Impact area	MSI Score
	Global Warming	4.9
	Eutrophication	4.6
	Water Scarcity	2.2
	Abiotic Resource Depletion, Fossil Fuels	6.8
	Chemistry	Scored per material rather than production stage. Click on "Return to Material", and learn about Chemistry scoring under "Chemistry Certifications".

Modeling Notes

Includes 10% loss of raw material to account for yield losses. Also includes 1000km inbound shipping distance to account for shipment of raw materials.

Meta information

Primary Source: ecoinvent 3.3
Last Publication or Review date: 2011
Geography: Global/generic
Data Generator: Cashion East, Pivot Analytics; east@pointpivot.com

Applicable Materials

Material	Impact benchmarkimpactblend components
Foamed rubber	36 Rubbers/Elastomers

Data quality

Data Quality	Value	Description
Precision	Fair	20% to 30%	3
Time Representativeness	Good	Data are not older than 6 years with respect to the release date or latest review date	2
Geographical Representativeness	Fair	The processes included in the dataset are sufficiently representative for the geography stated in the title and metadata	3
Technological Representativeness	Fair	The technologies modeled are representative of the average technology used for similar processes	3
Average			2.75

Foamed rubber, fossil fuel based