Alan Spray from Anthesis Group writes about the end of the GHG reporting season and the best in class solutions delivered in partnership with Footprinter. We share the belief that getting a good system in place allows the sustainability manager to focus on driving improvement and innovation in their organisation. …
Footprinter Green Design's very visual performance gauges are featured prominately on a high level RB webpage titled Better design. RB goes on to point out that: 100% of product innovations assessed by our Sustainable Innovation Calculator RB’s Sustainable Innovation Calculator guides the development of low-impact products. In 2013, we assessed over …
RB is beginning to get well deserved recognition for their leadership in product sustainability. This post on GreenBiz sheds more light on how RB has successfully infused sustainability into their product development process. "Reckitt Benckiser has been at the forefront ... and demonstrates best practices ... Focus development teams on a …
Sustainability consultants Pure Strategies have put out a solid and important piece of research called "The Path to Product Sustainability". From their research they draw two basic insights: Companies committed to product sustainability enjoy the benefits of manufacturing cost savings, brand enhancement, employee engagement and other important financial and organizational …
Company Reckitt Benckiser is a multinational consumer goods company headquartered in Slough, England. It is a major producer of health, hygiene and home products. RB has 45 manufacturing facilities, employees over 37,000 people and operates in nearly 200 countries. Sustainability Performance In 2012, Reckitt Benckiser launched betteRBusiness, a strategy with three …
Company WRAP helps people and businesses recycle more and waste less. WRAP was started in 2008 and is funded by all four governments across the UK and the EU and runs programs in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Product Sustainability Forum (PSF) is a collaboration of grocery and …
Why are so many large companies still using Excel for their fundamental sustainability data collection and analysis? The answer is … because they can. Excel is relatively easy to use and everyone has it. So it’s great for special projects and doing something like an analysis or chart quickly. Sustainability …
Craig Simmons Chief Technical Advisor at Anthesis, talks about practical approaches to enterprise-scale sustainability. We love his observation that "you cannot save the world one life cycle analysis at a time"! One step at a time isn't fast enough. We need to be able to run, and run fast. Otherwise we …