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More than three quarters of industry greenhouse gas emissions comes from supply chains. These emissions are often greater than a company’s direct emissions, and fall within Scope 3 emissions for the purposes of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.

It is clear that, if businesses want to progress towards a more sustainable future, they must target inefficiencies throughout the value chain.

What’s more, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become increasingly important for businesses, as they seek to future-proof themselves. This is more than just a buzzword. In real terms, businesses will surely attract the largest number of customers if they stay up-to-date with sustainability legislation.

So, how can you reduce the carbon footprint of your supply chain, and enhance sustainability?

Focus on efficiency

Wasted energy is now a significant issue for businesses, particularly throughout the supply chain. Rather than wasting resources unnecessarily, we must make better use of natural and energy-efficient resources such as solar, wind and geothermal energy. Making use of natural resources guarantees a steady flow of energy for businesses, that can be replenished. Fossil fuel power, on the other hand, will eventually run dry.

Intelligent energy management provides a holistic way to reduce waste and increase your efficiency. This approach to energy optimisation typically involves smart metering, identifying inefficiencies and energy-saving solutions. At EIC, we can help you to manage your energy in the most efficient and effective way, uniquely tailored to your business.

Incorporate ESG reporting

ESG is becoming increasingly prominent in the eyes of directors and stakeholders. This means that having an ESG strategy will become crucial for organisations that are looking to secure funding.  With businesses looking towards a more sustainable future, ESG reporting is becoming a central component of decision-making.

ESG reporting provides clients and investors with a snapshot of a business’s impact in these three areas. Further emphasising the need or businesses to consider their impact on the planet, and enabling them to become more transparent about the risks and opportunities that they face. This allows clients and investors to clearly understand where their environmental priorities lie, and will be vital moving forward.

Set sustainability targets and track emissions

The UK’s net zero targets are growing ever closer, so it’s important that businesses and individuals work towards their goals. By setting realistic levels of sustainability, businesses can track their progress and ensure that they adhere to government legislation.

Climate-related risks are also beginning to play an important, and even mandatory, role in investment decisions. This means that large companies will have no choice but to reduce their environmental footprint.

Tracking your carbon footprint through the supply chain can help you to understand where you are using the most energy. In turn, a business can set goals to improve their efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. This involves a comprehensive audit and data collection process, to fully understand where emissions are occurring.

How can EIC help?

Understanding and managing your energy usage and carbon emissions across multiple sites and throughout the value chain can be difficult, and it may even seem impossible. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

At EIC, we understand the growing importance of securing a green future. We help businesses to monitor and manage their energy and carbon, alwways with sustainability in mind. Our in-house team can guide you through energy monitoring, carbon management, green procurement and compliance legislation.

Get in touch today to find out how we can help you to reach your sustainability goals.

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Businesses across the country are working towards a greener future. And to be able to reach this, sustainable waste management is essential. Choosing to dispose of your waste ethically brings social, economic and environmental benefits that will better not only eco-systems but also your business.

In 2019, the UK’s commercial and sectors industries generated over 37.2 million tonnes of waste. As the country moves closer to its net zero goals, all unnecessary waste must be reduced and dealt with responsibly.

We take a look at sustainable waste management, how it can be achieved, and the subsequent benefits.

How to combat waste sustainably

As net zero targets are nearing and a consistent stream of government legislation is appearing, businesses across the world are becoming more sustainable and transparent. But this is proving a greater challenge for multi-site businesses.

It is easy for larger businesses to slip into green washed tendencies through short-lived initiatives and less significant projects such as implementing recycling programmes for short times. It is vital that multi-site businesses find ways of being consistently sustainable on a larger scale.

This can be achieved through a holistic strategy of operational changes, capital projects, employee engagement and accountability.

Multi-site sustainability

There are several ways that businesses can improve their waste management systems, while making those systems more sustainable. And businesses can also tailor these options to the office culture and company goals.

The main advantages of sustainable waste management are social, economic, and environmental. Disposing of waste in a sustainable way helps to reduce pollution, and in turn, reduces the risk to public health. Air and water quality is improved and the environment also benefits from reduced production and harmful emissions.

So, what are the most effective ways of championing sustainable waste management?

Closed-loop manufacturing

Closed-loop manufacturing entails businesses re-collecting and reusing waste to rebegin the manufacturing process.

By recycling a product into the same product, a closed-loop is created and the cycle continues.

This often occurs with aluminium cans.

Embracing this type of manufacturing comes with several benefits, including:

  • Preserving natural resources
  • Minimising risk to environment
  • Reducing waste that would have otherwise gone to landfill
  • Pollution and carbon emissions are lessened

While some waste simply can’t be recycled, it is essential that sustainable manufacturing solutions are incorporated into daily business operations.

The importance of a waste audit

To reduce waste, you must first reduce consumption. And before you can reduce consumption, you must first understand how much you are consuming and where. This is where waste auditing comes in.

A waste audit involves reviewing the current methods of waste disposal. From there, improvements can be made and businesses can start to reap the rewards of sustainability. Not only will businesses reduce costs by cutting out unnecessary waste, they can also improve on their environmental performance.

How can EIC help?

Becoming efficient is an essential step for the UK when reaching its net zero targets. This means that every aspect of a business must move towards becoming sustainable.

As one of the UK’s leading utilities consultancies, we are well placed to support you no matter where you are in your journey to net zero. We ensure that your waste management systems are the most advantageous for your business, from both a financial and environmental perspective. Typically, we will carry out a free audit, followed by a site survey. From there we can see which aspects of your business could be improved.

Get in touch today to find out how we can help you on your journey towards sustainability.

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