Every claim, with the document that proves it named next to it.
A sustainability team does not need another claim. It needs to know which scope a claim lands in, what an assurance provider will ask for, who holds that artefact, and whether it exists yet. So this page is written as a register rather than as marketing. Three of the claims below are Published, most are In build, and a few say Not yet in the same table as the rest. We do not buy offsets and we do not use the phrase carbon neutral: the reductions here are physical, in a bill of materials and a take-back contract, or they are not claimed.
957 kg
CO2e avoided per bench across the physical levers, cradle to gate
Estimated8
Claims in the register, each with its evidence requirement
Verified1 / 8
Claims whose evidence is published today
VerifiedPublished evidence
Verified1
Artefact exists and is on this platform
In build
Verified5
Specified, produced at first deployment
Not yet
Verified2
Named here rather than quietly omitted
Offsets purchased
Verified0
Deliberate. Physical reduction or no claim
Scope 1 is small and honest. Scope 2 is smaller. Scope 3 is where this product actually earns it.
The electricity a bench gives away is a reportable but modest scope 2 line. The material story, reclaimed modules the UK regime will not let back on a roof, residue fibre instead of virgin polymer, contractual take-back, is a scope 3 category 1, 5 and 12 story, and it is the material one. Filter by scope and read the evidence column as the working list.
Direct combustion within the boundary
At events and temporary sites, a bench fleet removes generator running hours that sit inside the organisation's own scope 1.
Reportable as. Litres of diesel not burned, times 2.68 kg CO2e per litre.
Evidence an assurance provider will ask for
- Event power plan before and after, showing the generator removed rather than merely idle
- Fuel purchase records for the comparable prior event
- Delivered kWh from the bench fleet over the same period, from the fleet dashboard
Who holds it. Buyer holds the fuel and plan records. Canopei holds the delivered energy record.
Purchased electricity, location and market based
Charging, lighting and connectivity run from the bench's own array and store, so the load never reaches a meter.
Reportable as. Metered kWh delivered by the fleet, times the current grid factor, reported as avoided purchased electricity rather than as a reduction in generation.
Evidence an assurance provider will ask for
- Per-bench delivered energy log with timestamps and lane, exportable as CSV
- Array generation log read from the panel as its own pyranometer, for cross-check
- Grid factor source and vintage stated on every export
Who holds it. Canopei, from the fleet telemetry the buyer also has direct access to.
Category 1, purchased goods and services
Embodied carbon of the furniture is lower than an equivalent hardwood or virgin-polymer bench, because the deck is crop and sawmill residue compound and the panels are reclaimed modules.
Reportable as. Cradle-to-gate kg CO2e per bench, against a stated comparator bench.
Evidence an assurance provider will ask for
- Bill of materials by mass, per variant
- Reclaimed panel provenance records, module by module
- Compound recipe and origin, hemp or pine share by batch
- Third party LCA to ISO 14040 and 14044, and an EPD once the line runs
Who holds it. Canopei, with the LCA and EPD by an external verifier.
Category 5, waste generated in operations
Partner waste streams become feedstock, so the partner's disposal tonnage falls. They are paid nothing for the material because they were paying to lose it.
Reportable as. Tonnes diverted from the partner's disposal contract in the reporting year.
Evidence an assurance provider will ask for
- The partner's own waste transfer notes, before and after
- Weighbridge tickets at the aggregation point
- Mass balance from delivered tonnes to compounded tonnes
Who holds it. The partner holds the primary evidence. We hold the mass balance.
Category 4 and 9, upstream and downstream transport
Fibre is densified into pellets at origin, so the freight leg carries dry dense cargo rather than bulky biomass.
Reportable as. tonne-kilometres and kg CO2e per tonne of compound landed, by leg.
Evidence an assurance provider will ask for
- Bill of lading per container with route and mode
- Pellet bulk density certificate per batch
- Emissions factors by mode with source and vintage
Who holds it. Canopei and the freight forwarder.
Category 12, end-of-life treatment
Take-back is contractual, so the end-of-life line is a recovery rate rather than a landfill assumption.
Reportable as. Recovered mass as a share of delivered mass, by material stream.
Evidence an assurance provider will ask for
- Signed take-back clause in the supply contract
- Return manifest and audited recovery weight at the point of take-back
- Regrind yield per returned deck
Who holds it. Buyer and Canopei jointly, on a shared manifest.
Category 7 and 6, commuting and business travel
Charging and shade at interchanges and campuses support modal shift. This is a soft claim and we will not dress it as a hard one.
Reportable as. Occupancy and dwell evidence alongside the site's own modal shift survey. Reported as supporting evidence, never as a carbon number.
Evidence an assurance provider will ask for
- Hourly occupancy aggregates from the node
- The site's own travel survey, before and after
- A written statement that no carbon figure is claimed from this line
Who holds it. Buyer, with node data from Canopei.
Cross-cutting, environmental disclosure
The fleet produces continuous local sound level, rainfall and air quality records at the sites the organisation is reporting on.
Reportable as. A dataset, not a carbon number. It evidences the local condition claims that a footprint report and a planning or licensing submission both need.
Evidence an assurance provider will ask for
- Quarter-hourly LAeq, LA90 and LAmax per node with calibration date
- Tipping bucket rainfall with per-tip resolution and a maintenance log
- Sensor calibration certificates and drift checks
- Published open data licence for the site
Who holds it. Canopei publishes. The buyer owns the licence choice.
Noise and rainfall are how a bench stops being furniture and starts being infrastructure.
The carbon lines are modest and we say so. The measurement lines are not, because they replace hired surveys and modelled assumptions with a permanent record at the exact place the decision is argued about. Set a fleet size and see what the record is worth.
Noise is the claim that most often has no number behind it
Dispersal policy, licensing conditions, works consents and planning objections are all argued about sound, and almost always with a one week hired survey or with anecdote. A permanent LAeq and LA90 record at the seat changes the shape of that argument, because both sides are then reading the same chart.
96 noise aggregates per bench per day, continuously, for the life of the bench
Rainfall is measured kilometres from where it is managed
Surface water teams, grounds contractors and event operators plan against the nearest official gauge, which is frequently several kilometres away and on the other side of a hill. The canopy is already the collecting surface, so the gauge costs a tipping bucket rather than a site.
0.2 mm per tip at the site itself, aggregated quarter-hourly
Measurement is what turns a purchase into a reportable intervention
Most green capital spend is verified by a consultant's model. This one reports its own generation, its own delivered energy and its own site conditions, which shortens an assurance cycle instead of lengthening it. That is the ESG argument, and it does not depend on the carbon saving being large.
One CSV per site, per measure, with calibration date and lane
The same data answers the social value question
Under the UK social value model a bid is scored on more than carbon. Occupancy at a high street bench, a free charge that removes a household cost, and a published local dataset all score, and all three come off one invoice.
Hourly occupancy aggregates, no cameras, no device identifiers
Benches carrying the sensor head
602,016,000
Noise aggregates a year
Estimated2,016,000
Rainfall aggregates a year
Estimated60
Hired noise survey weeks displaced
Estimated2.0%
Uplift on the official UK rain gauge network
EstimatedSound publishes as LAeq 15 min, LA90 background, LAmax at 96 aggregates a day and never as audio. Rainfall publishes as mm per 15 min, mm per hour, daily total, rain-onset flag from a tipping bucket in the canopy drip line, 0.2 mm per tip. For the denominator: the United Kingdom runs roughly 3,000 official rain gauges and of the order of 400 continuous public noise monitors, across 243,610 square kilometres. A fleet of 60 instrumented benches is therefore a material addition to national noise monitoring long before it is a material addition to rainfall monitoring, and the total payload is only 1161.2 MB a year.
EstimatedPhysical avoidance, in order of size. No credits, no neutrality claim.
Every line below sits inside our own bill of materials, which is why none of it is sold to anybody. The one lever that could ever become a tradable credit is biochar from the fines fraction, and the full eligibility test, buffer deduction and retirement policy are set out on the carbon credits dashboard.
Reclaimed photovoltaic modules instead of new
430kg CO2e per bench
A module that leaves a roof under UK MCS rules cannot be reinstalled on a certified roof, regardless of remaining output. We buy those modules at scrap value and put them on furniture, where MCS does not apply.
EstimatedCrop and sawmill residue compound instead of virgin polymer
186kg CO2e per bench
Hemp shiv or pine residue cellulose replaces a large share of the polymer mass in the deck, and the residue itself is a stream someone was paying to dispose of.
EstimatedRecycled polymer for the balance of the compound
121kg CO2e per bench
The polymer fraction that is not fibre is post-industrial and post-consumer recyclate, not virgin resin, and it is specified by grade rather than by hope.
EstimatedDensify at origin, ship pellets not bales
58kg CO2e per bench
Fibre is decorticated and pelletised where it grows, so a container carries dense dry cargo. The freight emission per tonne of usable compound falls sharply against shipping baled biomass.
EstimatedContractual take-back and regrind
94kg CO2e per bench
The deck comes back to compound and the frame back to stock. This is the line that converts an end-of-life assumption into a recovery rate.
EstimatedDelivered energy, over ten years
68kg CO2e per bench
Free charging, lighting and connectivity that never touch a meter. Small per year, and the only line here that accumulates rather than landing at manufacture.
EstimatedBiochar from the fibre fraction that cannot make a deck
Held outside the per-bench totalDecortication screens out dust, fines and short fibre. Burned in the open, that carbon returns to the air in a season. Pyrolysed in a grower-owned kiln, most of it becomes a stable solid and the recovered heat dries the fibre we do want.
Reportable as: Durable carbon removal in tonnes CO2, on a verified methodology, held by whoever the JV registers it to. Never reported as a reduction in the bench footprint.
- ·Per-batch char characterisation including the hydrogen to organic carbon ratio
- ·Weighbridge mass balance tied to the same field identifier the fibre chain carries
- ·Third party verification and registry issuance under a durable removal methodology
- ·Application records showing where the char physically went
We do not buy carbon credits and we do not describe the bench as carbon neutral. Every figure above is a physical avoidance in a bill of materials, a freight leg or a meter reading.
Biogenic carbon in the fibre is reported separately and never netted against fossil emissions, because the crop would have grown anyway and much of the residue would have been burned.
Biochar removals from the grower joint venture are held separately from every figure above. A tonne sold as a removal is not also counted as a reduction in our own footprint, and no headline number on this platform is net of biochar.
Nothing here is third party verified. The LCA and EPD are commissioned work, not completed work, and until they exist every carbon figure on this platform carries the word Estimated.
From a field identifier to a bench serial, and back again at end of life.
Each stage states what is recorded, which identifier travels forward, and how a buyer audits it. The identifier is the point: a serial on a finished bench resolves back to the pellet batch, the consignment and the harvest lot, and forward to the return manifest.
- Where
- Grower co-operative, plantation or sawmill
- What is recorded
- Field or compartment identifier, crop or species, harvest window, wet tonnes
- Identifier carried forward
- Lot number, opened at the weighbridge
- How a buyer audits it
- Grower declaration and weighbridge ticket, sampled on site visit
- Status
- In build
- Where
- Co-operative yard or mill yard
- What is recorded
- Moisture at intake, dry tonnes, lots combined into a consignment
- Identifier carried forward
- Consignment number, with its constituent lot numbers
- How a buyer audits it
- Weighbridge and moisture meter log, reconciled against grower payments
- Status
- In build
- Where
- Origin processing line
- What is recorded
- Fibre and shiv split, drying energy source, output dry tonnes, yield loss
- Identifier carried forward
- Batch number, referencing the consignment
- How a buyer audits it
- Line output log and energy invoices
- Status
- Not yet
- Where
- Origin compounding or pelletising partner
- What is recorded
- Recipe, bulk density, pellet moisture, mechanical test coupon
- Identifier carried forward
- Pellet batch number and its test certificate
- How a buyer audits it
- Certificate of analysis per batch, retained coupon held for the batch life
- Status
- Not yet
- Where
- Origin port to Liverpool or Felixstowe
- What is recorded
- Container number, route, mode, tonne-kilometres, phytosanitary clearance
- Identifier carried forward
- Bill of lading, linked to the pellet batches inside
- How a buyer audits it
- Bill of lading and customs entry
- Status
- Not yet
- Where
- UK decommissioning contractors and installers
- What is recorded
- Module serial, original install, flash test output, insulation resistance, visual grade
- Identifier carried forward
- Module serial, which stays with the bench for its whole life
- How a buyer audits it
- Per-module test record, retrievable by bench serial
- Status
- In build
- Where
- Manchester
- What is recorded
- Pellet batch to mould shot, panel serials fitted, torque and electrical test results
- Identifier carried forward
- Bench serial, which resolves back to every batch and module in it
- How a buyer audits it
- Build record per bench serial, released to the buyer at handover
- Status
- In build
- Where
- Site
- What is recorded
- Site, commissioning test, generation and delivered energy, service events
- Identifier carried forward
- Bench serial, unchanged
- How a buyer audits it
- Fleet dashboard export, on the buyer's own access
- Status
- In build
- Where
- Return to Manchester
- What is recorded
- Returned mass by stream, regrind yield, module residual output, reuse or recycle route
- Identifier carried forward
- New pellet batch number, closing the loop on the original serial
- How a buyer audits it
- Return manifest and audited recovery weight
- Status
- Published
What a buyer actually asks, answered in one line each.
Which scope does this land in?
Scope 2 as a small avoided-electricity line, scope 1 only where a generator genuinely leaves a plan, and scope 3 as the material claim: purchased goods, waste, transport and end of life.
What will my assurance provider ask me for?
Delivered energy logs, a bill of materials by mass, panel provenance per module, waste transfer notes from the partner, and an LCA. Four of those five exist as a specification today and the LCA is commissioned work.
What can I say publicly without being challenged?
That the fleet is self-powered, that the panels are reclaimed modules the UK regime will not let back on a roof, that the deck is crop and sawmill residue, that take-back is contractual, and that the site publishes its own noise and rainfall record. Every one of those is a fact about the product, not a modelled saving.