What is "Carbon Footprint"?

The amount of greenhouse gas emissions directly and indirectly generated during the entire life cycle of each product is the "Carbon Footprint". The so-called life cycle covers the entire process from raw material acquisition, factory manufacturing, distribution, sales, and use to final disposal, and recycling, that is, from nothing to nothing, from something to nothing, from the cradle to the grave.

This vision extends the impact of human activities on the environment from the chimneys of factories, forward to the cultivation and mining of raw materials, and backward to how products are delivered to consumers, and when they are used and discarded, because All of these will leave a "Carbon Footprint" on the earth.

For example, if electric vehicles were considered to be environmentally friendly in the past, but measured by the standard of carbon footprint, although electric vehicles do not emit carbon when they are on the road, the electricity they use will emit carbon in the process of generating them. The mining, production, assembly, and even transportation of automobile-related raw materials also emit carbon. The carbon footprint of an electric car is certainly smaller than that of a gasoline car, but it will never be zero.

In other words, "Carbon Footprint" has gone beyond the scope of air pollution or recycling in the past, redefining the responsibility of each product to the environment from the consumer side.