The Product Ecodesign Scorecard helps designers and sustainability teams benchmark a physical product against the eight core ecodesign parameters of the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR). Rate each parameter and get a single weighted score plus a ranked list of where redesign effort will pay off most.
How it works
You score eight parameters from 0 to 10, where 10 is best-in-class circular performance:
- Durability — expected service life and robustness
- Reparability — ease of disassembly, spare-part and tool availability
- Reusability — potential for reuse or remanufacture
- Recyclability — share of the product that can be recycled at end of life
- Recycled content — share of recycled material used in manufacture
- Carbon footprint — embodied and in-use emissions
- Chemical safety — absence of substances of concern
- Resource efficiency — material and energy economy in production
Each parameter carries an ESPR-aligned weight. Durability, reparability, and recyclability are weighted most heavily because they are central to ESPR’s circularity goals. The weighted scores combine into a 0–100 result:
score = Σ (parameter/10 × weight) × 100, where Σ weights = 1Example and priorities
A laptop that is hard to open and glues in its battery might score 9 on durability but 2 on reparability. Because reparability is highly weighted, it lands near the top of the priority list — telling the team that making the battery user-replaceable is worth more than further hardening the chassis.
The priority list ranks parameters by how much weighted score is being lost (weight × the gap from 10), so the recommendations point at the changes with the biggest effect on your overall ecodesign grade.