An Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is an independently verified and registered document that communicates transparent and comparable information about the life cycle environmental impact of a product.
Both the cement and concrete sectors have fully embraced regionally-specific industry-wide average Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) as a way of quantifying and confirming industry improvements in carbon reduction. All cement facilities in Canada have also published facility-specific EPDs and an increasing number of concrete producers have as well.
Provincial and specific product EPDs
In addition, there are several tools and programs available or under development for calculating facility specific concrete EPDs. A list of pertinent resources is outlined below: