Five years of plates, measured in plastic
Size 4 square plates for the rear of the vehicle: annual replacement against a five-year plate revalidated by disc. Put in your fleet size below.
What this compares
Five hard plates over five years, against one VIPOL® and LPR plate revalidated each year by a dated disc. Material only.
Results update as you type.
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Plastic, per vehicle
47 bottles against 8, over the same five years
Each bottle is one PET drinks bottle's worth of plastic, at 11 grams. One vehicle, five years.
Hard plate, replaced every year
47
bottle equivalents
per vehicle over five years
versus
Five-year plate, revalidated by disc
8
bottle equivalents
per vehicle over five years
Across your fleet
What that comes to at 500 vehicles
Hard plate
Replaced every year
- Plates made
- 2,500
- Discs made
- 0
- Bottle equivalents
- 23,500
- Plastic used
- 259 kg
- CO₂e
- 1.4 tonnes
Five-year plate
VIPOL® + LPR, revalidated each year by a dated disc
- Plates made
- 500
- Discs made
- 2,500
- Bottle equivalents
- 4,000
- Plastic used
- 44 kg
- CO₂e
- 300 kg
Carbon, across your fleet
1.4 tonnes against 300 kg
Cradle to grave, plate and delivery. Per vehicle, 2,700 grams against 600; below is all 500 of your vehicles.
Hard plate
Replaced every year
- Materials & manufacturing
- 600 kg
- Logistics
- 750 kg
- Total CO₂e
- 1.4 tonnes
Five-year plate
VIPOL® + LPR, revalidated each year by a dated disc
- Materials & manufacturing
- 175 kg
- Logistics
- 125 kg
- Total CO₂e
- 300 kg
Where the saving comes from
Only 40% of it is the plate
Across 500 vehicles the saving is 1.1 tonnes of CO₂e. 425 kg is the plate. 625 kg is the delivery - and you can have that whichever plate you buy.
Better you know the split now than when somebody audits it.
End of life
Already counted, and not the same in kind
Cradle to grave means end of life is already in the figures. There is no extra credit to add. But the two routes end differently.
Polycarbonate must come back to us for deep-cleaning and remanufacture - a collection journey and chemical processing. The hard plate column assumes that loop is running, which flatters it.
VIPOL® and LPR shred on your own premises, into your own waste stream, as the replacement is issued.
One route needs your supplier still trading in five years. The other needs a shredder you already own.
There are no prices on this page, on purpose
The material figures hold whatever you specify. Price does not - it moves with volume, security specification and how you take delivery.
Both builds cost less over five years than an annual hard plate, and we will put that in writing against your own figures.
Tell us your vehicle count and what your scheme carries, and we will price it on both routes.
Talk to usWhat the model does
Six assumptions, all of them stated
- Annual replacement issues five rear plates over five years. The five-year plate issues one, revalidated by a dated disc each year.
- Weights, measured. A polycarbonate rear plate weighs 105 g, so 525 g over five years. Five-year route 82.25 g - a 62 g VIPOL® shield, a 4 g LPR layer, and five discs at 3 g VIPOL® plus 0.25 g LPR.
- Bottle equivalents at 11 g, a 500ml PET bottle. 525 g is 47.7; we state 47. 82.25 g is 7.5; we state 8. Both roundings go against us.
- Nothing left out of our column. Every polymer in both builds is counted, theirs and ours.
- Rear plates only. Like for like on both routes. Front plates, badges, door signs and internal licences are counted separately.
- Carbon is cradle to grave, so end of life is already in it - no recycling credit to add. Split into materials and logistics wherever shown.
At end of life both builds are recovered and remanufactured, and the one-year LAB and VIPOL® build can be shredded on your own premises. Nothing you type on this page is transmitted, logged or stored.
Four fewer plates a vehicle, every five years.
Send us your vehicle count and your renewal cycle and we will model it on your own numbers - material, cost and the cases where we are not the right answer.
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