# Laid Back Snacks Inc.

**Certification:** The Climate Label Certified — Completed (expired), 2024
**Certified since:** 2021 (most recent: 2024)
**Industry:** Food + Beverage
**Website:** https://laidbacksnacks.com/
**Sustainability page:** https://laidbacksnacks.com/

## Sustainability story

While our core business involves shipping healthy and delicious snacks across North America, we make sure we do it as responsibly as possible. In mid-2020, we changed our packaging to a recyclable pouch which allowed us to eliminate single-use plastics in our product. By the end of 2022, we switched our bags to a pillow pouch style which reduces the amount of plastic used per bag by 60%. We ship our snacks in FSC-certified, fully-recyclable boxes. This ensures that everything we ship to our customers is either edible or recyclable. We practice sourcing as locally and Canadian as possible to reduce shipping emissions, and our also proud to call ourselves a B Corporation as of 2023.

## Emissions (2024)

**Methodology:** Laid Back Snacks Inc.'s inventory uses spending data to estimate GHG emissions. Laid Back Snacks Inc. attests to the accuracy of their data inputs and the Change Climate Project team reviews the submission for compliance with the Standard.

- Scope 1: 0 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (location-based): 0 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (market-based): 1 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (location-based): 0 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 444 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 0 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 445 tCO2e**

**Emissions intensity:** Per unit of product — unit of product

### Emissions history (tCO2e, intensity as disclosed)
| Year | Scope 1 | Scope 2 (loc) | Scope 2 (mkt) | Scope 3 (loc) | Scope 3 (mkt) | Intensity |
|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
| 2020 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 14.34 |
| 2021 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 5.62 |
| 2022 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1.58 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 444 | 1.17 |

## Reduction plans

### Science-aligned targets
- We commit to reducing 2022 Scope 1 & 2 emissions 50% by 2030 (completion: 0%)

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 2** — We plan to reduce emissions and electricity by eliminating our office space. (source: Electricity, target: Q3 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce emissions from our downstream shipping by using zero emission couriers for 5% of our total relative shipping costs. (source: Downstream shipping, target: Q3 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce our reliance on air freight for upstream shipping from 30% of total relative transportation costs to 10%. (source: Upstream shipping, target: Q3 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 2** — We plan to reduce our electricity consumption in our warehouse. (source: Electricity, target: Q4 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce waste from food by 50% through careful control of inventory levels in our warehouse facility. (source: Operational waste, target: Q4 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to start using industrially compostable packaging for one of our retail channel skus, namely All Dressed in the 130 gram bag. (source: Packaging, target: Q2 2024, completion: 60%)
- **Scope 3** — Explore feasibility of transitioning from 100% lowest cost third party logistics partners to working with third party logistics partners who are carbon neutral across all customer channels. (source: Downstream shipping, target: Q1 2025, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce employee commuting emissions by 50% for all production employees by hiring locally and encouraging shared or public transit. (source: Employee commuting, target: Q1 2025, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce employee commuting emissions by 50% for all non-production employees by working remotely three days per week and using leased electric vehicles for company executives. (source: Employee commuting, target: Q1 2027, completion: 0%)

## Climate funding (2024)

**Total funding:** $1,379.5

**Spend by category:**
- VCA (Voluntary Carbon / Reductions): $0
- OC (Organizational Commitments): $0
- BVC (Beyond Value Chain): n/a

### Projects
- [BVC] Anthiyur Wind Power Project (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $1,379.5 — type: Renewable Energy, registry: Verified Carbon Standard, vintage: 2021, location: India, provider: Point Zero

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