{"id":3589,"date":"2026-09-22T15:59:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T13:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stingraysusstg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=3589"},"modified":"2026-10-22T13:02:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:02:01","slug":"verified-epd-for-the-stingray-node","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainability.istingray.no\/en\/verified-epd-for-the-stingray-node\/","title":{"rendered":"We now have a verified EPD for the Stingray node. Here’s why that matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What the LCA found<\/h2>\n

The Stingray node weighs 356 kg and contains over 800 components comprising more than 3,000 individual parts. Until 2025, Stingray did not have a complete material-level picture of what those parts were made of or where the environmental footprint was concentrated. The Life Cycle Assessment mapped every component by weight, material composition and environmental impact.<\/p>\n

The result: 8.1 tCO\u2082e per node across its full lifecycle, covering raw materials, manufacturing, transport, operational use and end of life. 80% of a node’s total mass is recyclable or reusable at end of life.<\/p>\n

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What an EPD is and why it matters<\/h3>\n

An Environmental Product Declaration is a standardised, third-party verified summary of a product’s environmental profile. It is the document that allows your suppliers’ emissions to be calculated with actual data rather than spend-based estimates, which matters because spend-based Scope 3 figures are increasingly challenged in assurance processes and certification audits.<\/p>\n

If you are reporting Scope 3 Category 1 (purchased goods and services) and Stingray equipment is part of your technology procurement, you can use Stingray’s EPD to replace spend-based estimates with verified activity data. That improves both accuracy and your data quality score. Download the EPD here.<\/p>\n

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What 80% recyclability means in practice<\/h3>\n

Aluminium (29% of node weight) is recovered at 100%. The POM-C engineering polymer (26%) is managed under a closed-loop arrangement with Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials, returned, reprocessed and reused. 90% of GPUs returned in 2025 were either reused internally or resold. These are documented recovery rates, not targets.<\/p>\n

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8.1 tCO\u2082e,<\/strong> verified lifecycle footprint per Stingray node.<\/p>\n

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80%<\/strong> of node mass recyclable or reusable at end of life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Ask us for the Stingray EPD or LCA documentation to use in your own supply chain disclosures. <\/em><\/p>\n

Request documentation here: sustainability@stingray.no<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2025, Stingray completed its first Life Cycle Assessment and obtained a certified Environmental Product Declaration for the Stingray node. As supply chain transparency requirements grow, a verified EPD from your technology supplier is increasingly relevant.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"description":"Here you can read about how we have conducted a life cycle assessment for the Stingray-system"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[102,80,81,100,101],"class_list":["post-3589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-end-of-life","tag-epd","tag-lca","tag-recycling","tag-reuse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.istingray.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.istingray.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.istingray.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.istingray.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.istingray.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3589"}],"version-history":[{"count":74,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.istingray.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6981,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.istingray.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions\/6981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.istingray.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.istingray.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.istingray.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}