Whether you’re starting from scratch with sustainability, need help identifying WHAT you should be focusing on, or want to create more circularity in your business, we are here to help
Drawing on 25 years of expertise we help companies to reduce the environmental impact of the products that they make and sell. Whether you are looking to upskill your team, to understand where best to focus your efforts for maximum gain or would benefit from fractional sustainability support, we can help.
Sustainable Innovation consultancy
Choosing to work with an independent consultancy offers many benefits:
– 25 years of experience to hit the ground running
– Expertise on a par with consulting firms, but at a lower cost
– Project based or fractional support to suit your needs
– Quicker turnaround on results in many scenarios
– Broad cross sectoral industry knowledge
– Access to a wide network of sustainability specialists
Our expertise
Sustainable Innovation
Research
Product Development
Design for the Circular Economy
We provide whatever is needed to support your sustainability journey including: guidance and insight; carbon analysis; materials, technology and process oriented research; cross sectoral case study examples; and connection to other specialist contacts.
Packaging
B Corp
Design Thinking
Design for Sustainable Behaviour
The challenges you might be facing
Our clients work across a wide range of sectors and their needs are wide ranging, but these are some of the common areas they want help with…
Understanding the environmental hotspots for their product.
Understanding how to reduce the carbon impact of an existing product or pack.
Researching emerging materials and processes with specific technical capabilities.
How to practically embed circularity into their business model and supply chain.
Assessing concepts to identify which has the lowest carbon impact, and the greatest potential of value generation.
Identifying where and how environmental improvements can be made to products and packaging.
Researching materials, innovations & processes to support the ongoing needs of R&D.
Removing single use plastic from packaging designs to meet new legislation.
How we deliver
Our services cover 3 broad categories:
PROJECT BASED SUPPORT
Expert knowledge and experience in sustainability to support design, R&D, and sustainability teams on specific projects.
Activities include:
- Being a critical friend
- Using our abridged product carbon footprinting (PCF) methodology to identify environmental ‘hotspots’ and support strategic decision making.
- Sustainability analysis of design concepts, products, packaging, and services
- In-house ‘quick and dirty’ carbon modelling to support go / no-go decision making
- Mapping circularity opportunities across the product and supply chain
RESEARCH
Our research experience, cross-sector knowledge and extensive network offers a shortcut to generating research outputs, saving time and money.
For example:
- Strategic mapping to identify key target areas for environmental and financial success
- Deep dives into specific topics to support circularity/sustainability across the product lifecycle
- Innovation tracking (materials, processes, end of life) to inform R&D, procurement, and support investment opportunities.
- Competitor analysis and landscape mapping to learn from and position against brand leaders and competitors
TRAINING & WORKSHOPS
We offer bespoke sustainability training, from ‘lunch and learn’ sessions to multi-day workshops. Whether you’re looking to raise the awareness of your team or address a specific sustainability challenge.
Examples include:
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- Co-design workshops, focus groups and visual mapping to understand user/stakeholder needs
- Bespoke training in Design for Sustainability, tailored to your sector.
- Masterclass in ‘Sustainable packaging’ – this interactive course is taught online in small groups
- Bespoke design sprint to identify sustainability opportunities in existing product development systems
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