Services
DRIVING SUSTAINABILTY FORWARDS
Sustainable Product Innovation
Many organisations have made sustainability commitments – but translating them into commercially viable products requires specialist expertise. Drawing on 25 years of experience, we help product and packaging teams apply circular innovation and carbon modelling to generate value and drive decision making.
Level 1: ‘CATALYST’
Targeted consultancy support to provide direction, clarity and confidence
A focused piece of expert support, targeted at a specific business challenge. Whether you need to compare ideas, sense-check a direction, or understand what good looks like in your sector, CATALYST gives you dedicated expert input to help move things forward quickly and confidently
What’s included?
- Free NO OBLIGATION Discovery and Direction call to scope out your priorities around sustainability and pinpoint a key focal area
- Then you decide – GO / NO GO
- If you want to go ahead – which we sincerely hope you will – then we crack on! Completing the scoped out work and feeding back our key findings so that you can move forward with clarity and confidence
Cost: £550
Level 2: Sustainable Innovation Support
Product & Packaging Opportunity Scan
A short, focused engagement to identify the main sustainability ‘hotspots’ and opportunities for a selected product or pack.
What this includes:
- Carbon-informed hotspot analysis
- Identification of value-creating opportunities (risk, efficiency, differentiation)
- Clear priority areas for action
Best suited to organisations that need:
- A clear starting point
- Data to underpin decision making, aligns well with EU Packaging and Packaging waste regulation (PPWR) requirements
- Confidence about where to direct effort
Carbon-informed Design review
A targeted review of product or packaging concept to explore the implications of different materials, designs, or system choices.
What this includes:
- Structured comparison of realistic options
- Scenario testing using tailored carbon models
- Exploration of key trade-offs
- Can be expanded to incorporate formal Product Carbon footprinting aligned with ISO 14067
Best suited to teams with:
- Design development in progress
- Questions about the what leads to the best sustainability outpu
Circular Opportunity & Feasibility Scan
A focused piece of work to map circular opportunities and assess their technical and operational feasibility.
What this includes:
- Lifecycle and supply chain mapping
- Feasibility assessment within existing constraints
- Clear identification of viable circular pathways
Best suited to organisations looking to:
- Identify blockers and enablers in circularity
- Explore technical and financial viability
Level 3: Integrated Programme
For organisations facing broader or more complex decisions, these packages can combine into a structured programme of work, providing deeper support across:
- Opportunity identification
- Option comparison
- Scenario modelling
- Circular development
The structure is flexible and shaped around your stage of development and decision needs.
Training & Workshops
Workshops and training for all levels
For teams at the early stages of their sustainability journey, targeted workshops can build confidence and a shared foundation. For those further down the line they can support more applied work
Sessions include:
- Simple Sustainability for Small Businesses – 2hr online worksop, register interest for upcoming dates
- Circular economy literacy training – on demand
- Design for Sustainability in product development – on demand
- Carbon fundamentals for product teams – on demand
Workshops can be tailored to your context and needs. They are available in person and online.
How we work
Every engagement begins with a discovery call to distill down your core requirements. From there, we provide a tailored proposal shaped around your stage of development and level of uncertainty
Support can be delivered:
On a defined project basis
Fractionally
On a retained basis
Who we work with
We work across a range range of sectors, in organisations large and small, dropping in an supporting your established teams: R&D, product design and development, sustainability, packaging and manufacturing
what we deliver
Project Support
Research
Strategy
Workshops
Training
sectors we support
Consumer products
Med tech
FMCG
Personal Care
Aerospace
