Corporate focus on sustainability is a trend, advocating for carbon-neutral products, and looking for products that reduce their impact on the environment. Sustainable carbon neutral everyday consumables provide them with product options that allow them to make lower carbon choices and take more effective steps to reduce emissions, helping companies that want to achieve their carbon footprint achieve performance.Some companies such as the dairy-free milk firm, Oatly Inc. or Quorn, the meat substitute brand, already have introduced carbon dioxide emissions information on their product labels.

A product carbon footprint is the full inventory of all greenhouse gas emissions released throughout the product life-cycle. It is important to define the scope when calculating the carbon footprint of a product. Cradle-to-grave approach captures emissions from the extractions of raw materials, through to product’s manufacture, distribution, use and eventual disposal. According to Carbon Trust, this is the most used approach by consumer goods companies, and it is in line with the principles of a circular economy, where the full life-cycle of a product, including its end of life needs to be considered.

How consumers interact with products may be influenced by product design, marketing or point-of-sale information. For example, changes in the formulation of straws could reduce the required production and degradation cycles to impact greenhouse gas emissions.

Influencing consumers' environmentally sound disposal practices can be achieved through choice of packaging type and even through external initiatives to increase recycling and reuse. Carbon product footprint labels on product packaging can enable consumers to purchase products with an overall lower environmental impact.

Becoming "carbon neutral" means that any carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by the company's activities is balanced by the removal of an equal amount from the atmosphere by climate positive activities. The result is net zero carbon emissions, creating a more sustainable future for the global population.