GSS-3: 3 Item Comparison FAQ
What Is a GSS-3 3-Item Comparison?
GSS makes an environmental impact comparison between 3 unique items from the same category of items (e.g. 3 different brands of tires, 3 different brands of batteries, 3 different brands of liquid cleaners, etc.).
Mother Nature takes millions of years and thousands of generations to optimize her ecosystem processes.
Why not start your process today?
If you're a consumer/organization this comparison means what you'd be getting is useful to optimize your personal life or organizational operations today.
You are paying $99.95 Retail (or $49.95 plus 15 GSS Tokens) to get the GSS 3-Item Comparison results as soon as they are evaluated. Only one (1) Coupon code or Discount or Digital Token Redemption is available per order.
NOTE: Qualifed ShareNode Members can get the discount by using 15 GSS Tokens that they have already accumulated in their wallets. (Learn more about ShareNode here: https://www.sharenode.com/teamdynamo )
You pay to get
- The GSS-3 3-Item Comparison Summary Report, which is a summary of our analysis of over 30 different environmental impact metrics (this summary is also known as our Green Score).
- (in the future), when the comparison is completed, a more detailed 'GSS 3-Item GSS-LCA Comparison' will be available at an additional cost, where we compare/include the items' Green Score in these categories:
- Energy,
- Water,
- Material,
- Emissions and
- Sustainability / Circular Economy
(reuse, recycle, repurpose, disposal)
What You Get
You get the final summary relative comparison result for the 3 items (best, middle, worst).
(in the future): Additional environmental impact (EI) and Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) details can be obtained via your account online for an additional fee.
(in the future): The link to the detailed LCA report is revealed after the additional fee is paid and NDA is signed (based on manufacturers' IP requirements). You then receive a link to an explanation / detailed report.
About the Form
On the form itself, here's an explanation of the field names and detailed definition of what they mean:
The Fields are:
- Info About You:
(we need to be able to contact you in case we have incomplete or conflicting results, based on your input)- Your Name
- Phone
- Info About the Items you want to Compare:
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Product Category:
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What category of product: e.g. TV, battery, tire, NAICS Code
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Item Info (Field Descriptions):
- Product-1 Name/Model
- The branded name and model ID code of the item
- The branded name and model ID code of the item
- Manufacturer-1
- The original source manufacturing entity of the item. This may not be the same as the brand name manufacturer.
- The original source manufacturing entity of the item. This may not be the same as the brand name manufacturer.
- UPC Code-1
- The Universal Product Code (UPC) is a barcode symbology that is widely used in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, in Europe and other countries for tracking trade items in stores.
- The Universal Product Code (UPC) is a barcode symbology that is widely used in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, in Europe and other countries for tracking trade items in stores.
- QR Code-1
- QR code (abbreviated from Quick Response Code) is the trademark for a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional barcode) first designed in 1994 for the automotive industry in Japan.
- A barcode is a machine-readable optical label that contains information about the item to which it is attached. E.g.: Wikipedia QR code payment.
- Quantity/Pkg-1
- The number of items in the Package being sold
- The number of items in the Package being sold
- UOM-1
- Unit of Measure (UOM) used to measure the number of items or amount of the product in the Package being sold (e.g. each, kilogram, litre, ounce, pound, gallon, etc)
- Unit of Measure (UOM) used to measure the number of items or amount of the product in the Package being sold (e.g. each, kilogram, litre, ounce, pound, gallon, etc)
- Price-1 ($USD/pkg)
- Retail Price in $USD per Package offered by the Retailer
- Retail Price in $USD per Package offered by the Retailer
- MSDS ID-1 (SDS)
- Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) ID or Safety Data Sheet (SDS) ID
- NOTE: Knowing this REALLY HELPS us lock down what items you are actually comparing.
- This is what companies use in the USA to help ensure worker safety.
- All products sold in (or imported into) the USA are REQUIRED by Federal Law to have one of these!
- Retailer-1
- The name (or URL) of the retail company selling the item
- The name (or URL) of the retail company selling the item
- Retailer SKU-1
- The retailer's Store Keeper Unit (SKU) or stocking ID
- The retailer's Store Keeper Unit (SKU) or stocking ID
- Product-1 Name/Model
- Contact GSS at Support @ greenstarstandard.com if you have additional questions.