Hello,
I am confused about the allocation of emissions due to distribution of final products.
Let’s have a company that produces products (medicines, glasses, milk bottles,… any kind of retail product) and externilises its distribution to final clients. So, from the production plant these products are sent to one or various external warehouses. In these warehouses, these products are unpacked and picking is done to prepare new bundlles and packages that will be send to clients.
As per my understanding, distribution of final products are reported in Cat 4, which will include scope 1&2 of the warehouse (electricity and heating) and the use of fuel (well to wheel) for transportation means. In general terms this is the information I get from these warehouses.
However, transport uses tertiary packaging. And here is where my questiona lies: do we have to account also for the tertiary packaging used by the warehouse during distribution?
If so, where do we account for it, in Category 1 (purchased goods and services) or in category 4 (tranportation upstrean and distribution).
In many occasion I see that distribution companies, when calculating their CF do not include packaging. Did you have the same observation?
thanks!