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5 Advantages of a Sustainability System

Adopting a sustainability system brings long-term competitive advantages to a business. Few businesses today would consider operating without a company wide financial system and business intelligence tools. We believe that increasingly the same mindset is felt with sustainability teams. There is increasingly powerful software emerging and the challenges in deployment …

RB Product Sustainability Leadership

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 …

The Path to Product Sustainability

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 …

RB: Designing Green In Early

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 …

WRAP: Keep Up To Date on Product Sustainability

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 …

Top-5 Reasons Not To Use Excel

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 …

Can't Save The World One LCA At A Time

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 …