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Welcome to the finalists’ report for the 2020 Sustainability Leaders Awards.The past year has shown us numerous examples of organisations going to great lengths to drive the green industrial revolution, not just from within their own operations but also through new collaborations and sector-wide commitments.

Nowhere is this revolutionary ethos more evident than on the shortlist of edie’s 2020 Sustainability Leaders Awards. All of this year’s finalists have shifted from talking about ambitious sustainability initiatives to delivering them at scale and at pace. And in many cases, they’re already seeing a huge return on investment.

In this report you will find summaries of each finalist’s entry – the people, the products, and the initiatives that have stood out from the crowd, listed alphabetically by category.

On behalf of the entire edie team, I would like to congratulate all of this year’s finalists – we look forward to celebrating with you on 5 February 2020 at the Park Plaza London Westminster.

Luke Nicholls Content Director edie

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Building/Infrastructure Project of the Year

Arlington EnergyFinancing and development company Arlington Energy aims to build a major fleet of energy storage assets across the UK, and this ambition is captured within the Greenfield Road project. The project will provide 30 years of energy efficiency services to the grid and is one of the largest batteries in the UK at 44MW. It is entirely commercially funded, and will balance the grid based on stakeholder engagement with relevant network operators.

Gilbert-AshGilbert-Ash recently completed construction of the £23m Cambridge Mosque, Europe’s first “eco-mosque”. The project features solar heating, passive measure to reduce energy demand, sustainably sourced timber and renewable energy installations. It has had a positive impact for Cambridge, with an underground car park added to reduce on-street parking and traffic. Gilbert-Ash launched a new supply chain charter as a result.

Canary Wharf GroupCanary Wharf Group’s Southbank Place comprises of seven buildings in the 3.2-hectare site. By focusing on lifecycle impacts, the project has created a low-carbon, circular city. At Southbank Place, all 5,000m3 of timber was delivered from FSC-certified suppliers. This included the Group helping five suppliers achieve FSC certification. Real-time monitoring of air quality, as well as carbon, waste, water and materials, was conducted, and the project achieved a 20-fold increase in biodiversity on location.

Hive Energy/Wirsol Cleve Hill Solar Park is a 383-hectare project that will assist with the UK’s net-zero goals by delivering unsubsidised, zero-carbon electricity. It will be the UK’s largest solar park with consent for the world’s largest battery storage installation, connecting to National Grid’s Cleve Hill. The 350MW solar park marks the start of a pipeline of subsidy-free parks in the UK. The park will save in excess of 150,500 tonnes of CO2 per year, equivalent to 29,400 cars.

IKEAIKEA’s Greenwich store has been dubbed it’s most sustainable yet, and has achieved BREEAM Outstanding. IKEA has established 12 principles for stores; from the use of sustainable materials, the reduction of waste and lowered CO2 emissions, to creating healthy places to work. The Greenwich store is 80% more energy-efficient than required standards, with solar systems taking up more than 75% of the roof space.

Skanska and The Crown EstateThe Marq is one of the UK’s first buildings designed to achieve WELL Certification to optimise air quality, natural light and healthy workplace behaviours for all users of the building, alongside BREEAM Outstanding accreditation. Amongst its many sustainability features is the combination of solar PV panels, solar thermal water heating and air-source heat pumps providing 14% of the energy demand for the building.

SonaeSonae´s Business Park & Tech Hub located in Porto includes one building with LEED Gold certification and another in the process to obtain LEED certification. It features a new building that has 100% naturally lit workplaces and outdoor green spaces on each floor. As well as reusing rainwater, the Tech Hub features a double facade for thermal and acoustic protection and 118 solar PV panels for self-consumption energy production.

TidewayThames Tideway Tunnel will clean up the river and reconnect London with the city’s largest natural asset. A key focus is on improving water quality by capturing untreated sewage overflow, and the project also focuses on collecting plastics from the river, transporting material by river to reduce associated emissions, and key social considerations. An independent social return on investment assessment of the legacy strategy indicates a £3.19 return for every pound spent on the project.

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Business of the Year

Barry CallebautBarry Callebaut’s Forever Chocolate plan aims to make sustainable chocolate the norm by 2025. Through innovative approaches in areas such as farm mapping, carbon footprint measurement and creating publicly accessible methodologies, the company aims to improve the livelihoods of cocoa farming communities; reforesting with cocoa seedlings and shade trees, reducing its carbon footprint and increasing the uptake of sustainably produced chocolate and cocoa products.

GridserveGridserve Sustainable Energy has developed solar energy solutions with more than 60MWp of bifacial solar panels installed as well as 30MWh of battery energy storage across 340 acres of low-grade agricultural land - converted into nature sanctuaries to protect animal species. It has also developed a UK-wide network of electric vehicle (EV) charging forecourts and launched a range of hybrid solar remote power solutions. The firm has generated revenues for delivering net-zero carbon energy infrastructure of more than £60m in 2019 from less than £1m in 2018.

Grosvenor Britain & IrelandIn 2019, Grosvenor Britain & Ireland publicly committed to bold sustainability targets for 2030 and 2050. It has announced a net-zero carbon target by 2030, zero waste by 2030 and to always value nature. Part of this commitment includes scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions being assessed and working with the supply chain and customers on achieving net-zero. The firm has already implemented a new sustainable business procurement model, saved 5,480 tonnes from retrofitting properties, and all directly managed buildings now use 100% renewable energy.

Kingspan Insulated PanelsKingspan Insulated Panels manufactures advanced building envelope systems and solutions, working towards what it describes as a “more energy efficient future”. As well as reducing CO2 emissions directly through its products, the business also has sustainable practice at the heart of its operations by minimising the environment impact of its manufacturing through renewable energy; committing to net-zero energy globally by 2020, sourcing responsible low-carbon products, and creating circularity with zero waste to landfill.

LandsecCommercial property firm Landsec has sustainability embedded across the company, including annual group-wide remunerations and rewards, and the firm aims to engage the supply chain and influence consumers to reduce their emissions and to maximise positive impact. It has cut operational emissions in line with its science-based targets, and since a 2013/14 baseline year it has reduced carbon intensity by 39.8% against its 2030 science-based target of 40%. It procures 100% renewable electricity and is one of the first property firms to implement an internal shadow carbon price, driving investment towards cleaner projects.

Thai UnionSustainability is essential for seafood producer Thai Union as its business depends on healthy oceans. It launched its SeaChange strategy in 2016, aiming to deliver positive change for ocean stewardship and waste management; tackling labour rights abuses, and building “brighter” communities around its sites. Since launching the strategy, it has topped the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) food category for two years running and has been on the FTSE4Good Index for three years consecutively.

TOMRAFor more than 45 years, TOMRA has worked in the recycling industry, including pioneering work on reverse-vending in the 1970s. It now offers sensor-based sorting solutions for the food, recycling and mining industries alongside its reverse-vendingtechnology. In 2019, it established a circular economy team to help the industry transition towards circular business models. Its solutions helped keep 27 million tonnes of CO2 from being released into the atmosphere in 2018 and 40 billion used beverage containers are captured every year by its reverse-vending machines.

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Carbon Reduction Project of the Year

Croda International

Chemicals firm Croda undertakes a cradle-to-gate lifecycle assessment of the carbon impact of all its products. It also monitors steam use across the site, which produces a wide range of products from rapeseed oil that are grown locally and transported by barge. The negative carbon footprint of rapeseed oil means products leaving site are carbon-negative. At the end of 2018, it has achieved 32% absolute reduction in emissions since 2006, with plans for 50% by 2030 and 80% by 2050.

DPD

Logistics firm DPD became one of the first in its sector to implement all-electric operations at delivery sites in Westminster and Shoreditch. Using 39 electric vehicles (EVs), the company cut CO2 emissions from 3.75 tonnes per month to zero at these two central London sites. Following the success of the project, a further 55 EVs have been deployed at 16 depots nationwide, reducing CO2 emissions by 47 tonnes overall.

Drax

Drax plans to eliminate CO2 emissions from its operations through the development of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) technology to develop the world’s first carbon-negative power station. The company’s decarbonisation includes the launch of the first BECCS pilot project of its kind in the world which began capturing carbon on a small scale in 2019. It has also acquired assets in hydro electricity, and owns renewable electricity supplier Opus Energy, as well as providing an electric vehicle service to businesses through Haven Power.

ENERGY

Mitie

Outsourcing firm Mitie has worked in partnership with Vodafone to transform the communication provider’s energy consumption and volume of greenhouse gas emissions. The firm has transformed the EPC model into a bespoke offer with 10 energy managers and dedicated teams across procurement, operations and bureau. Mitie Energy developed processes to understand site operating conditions with a net-saving of £4.5m since the contract went live in April 2017, and has kept Vodafone on track to achieve a 50% greenhouse gas emissions reduction by 2025.

Multiplex Europe

Construction firm Multiplex Europe was one of the first contractors to set a science-based carbon target in 2018, aiming to reduce emissions by 30% by 2030. In 2018, it switched 3 million kWh of electricity to renewable tariffs, saving 600 tonnes of carbon from being emitted into the atmosphere. It also called more than 100 of the senior business leaders in its supply chain to support action and ran a supply chain programme to support them in setting science-based carbon targets.

NHS Ayrshire and Arran

The organisation’s biomass renewable heating project at University Hospital Ayr forms part of its carbon and energy reduction strategy to produce net-zero carbon emissions by 2045 at the latest. The 1.5MW biomass boiler project included the installation of a renewable heating plant built on lessons learned when installing a renewable heating plant into an existing large heating system. The organisation hit a 19% target of total energy used from renewable sources in year three of the project, with the new biomass boiler providing savings of 1000 tonnes of carbon in its first year.

S&C South Alliance

The S&C South Alliance - Network Rail, Aecom, Colas Rail - set itself an ambitious vision to make its railway renewal sites low-carbon and diesel-free. This vision delivered a 98% fuel reduction at its Gloucester site and has saved 108,000 litres of diesel across the rest of the project sites, totalling 289tCO2e The carbon reduction project was part of a series of sustainability objectives for the Alliance, including single-use plastic, dust, noise and nuisance reduction. It exceeded its parent companies’ objectives and aims to set a new standard on energy management at renewal sites.

The Climate Group

Non-profit organisation The Climate Group launched its corporate leadership initiative EV100 in 2017 with the goal of making electric vehicles (EVs) ‘the new normal’ by 2030. It brings together nearly 60 global businesses publicly committing to shift their fleets to EV and/or install EV charging points across their sites by 2030. At the time of the first EV100 Annual Report in 2018, 23 businesses, operating in 66 markets, had collectively committed more than 145,000 vehicles, and already transitioned 10,000 vehicles to electric. Since then, its membership has doubled.

Willmott Dixon

Construction firm Willmott Dixon’s Transforming Tomorrow target aims to halve carbon emissions by 2020. It has exceeded its 2020 goals – but operational emissions are less than 1% of its total emissions. Therefore, it has started to review supply chain emissions – assisting its three highest-impact partners with reducing their footprint – and is rolling out learning to other suppliers. It is also undertaking assessment of energy used in its buildings through its EnergySynergy programme. Currently, it is finalising its science-based targets and developing a new strategy to be net-positive by 2030 and achieve a net-zero supply-chain well before 2050.

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Circular Economy Innovation of the Year

Aceleron

For all the good they play in the decarbonisation of road transport, EV batteries are typically warrantied for less than 15 years and considered hard-to-recycle. Aceleron has developed what it purports to be the world’s first “fully circular” battery – a device held together by compression rather than traditional glue or welding, making repairs and upgrades easier and less resource-intense. Ongoing prototyping and remodelling have proven the solution’s scalability and potential to make energy storage accessible.

Cisco Systems

Cisco’s entry to this category goes beyond any single product; the company has developed an overarching circular economy programme covering the whole lifecycle of all products and services. Introduced in 2018, the programme has seen 35% PCR plastic content added to 2.5 million IP phones, with this proportion set to rise to 85% in FY20, and eliminated hard-to-recycle and high-carbon oil-based wet paints from several key plastic products. Crucially, the programme has also delivered cost savings and supported clients and suppliers on their own innovation journeys.

MWH Treatment – SMBJV

MWH Treatment is responsible for co-delivering £1.76bn of Thames Water’s capital program for AMP6 and has vowed to use 90% recycled aggregate in this process, while also diverting 98% of construction and demolition waste from landfill. Innovative thinking has been key to delivering on these ambitions, with the firm placing “designing out the need” for new construction at the top of the decision-making and behavioural hierarchy - and proving, in the process, that circular economy models can reduce costs and boost employee engagement.

P&G HolyGrail 2.0

Holy Grail has been introduced by Pioneer Projects, a collaborative initiative formed by members of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy. It aims to place digital watermarks on packaging, so they can be identified by stakeholders including consumers and waste management firms, thus overcoming challenges with recycling sorting. With this concept now proven and multi-award-winning, P&G has secured the support of more than 50 companies to upscale the technology and bring it to the mainstream market.

PALLITE

PALLITE’s FSC-certified lightweight paper pallets, pallet boxes, later pads and other components are designed to last longer than traditional wooden options, to be 100% recyclable and to lightweight shipments, reducing CO2 outputs. The firm’s latest circular economy innovation is PIX – a collapsible shelving unit for use in warehousing – which also enables more efficient use of space. PALLITE has said ever-more logistics and retail corporates are investing in these innovations, proving their long-term scalability.

Searious Business

Within the space of just four months, Searious Business has collaborated with recyclers, engineers and academics to design and launch a 3D-printed sofa made using 95% PCR recycled plastic for furniture brand Gispen. Each sofa contains 50kg of recyclate and is, in turn, fully recyclable up to six times over at the ‘end-of-life’ stage. After selling the first batch of 200 sofas, Searious Business believes the circular credentials of the innovation could be further boosted by offering product-as-a-service in future.

Tarkett

Since 2011, modular flooring firm Tarkett has been working to embed cradle-to-cradle principles across its product portfolio. The result has been products which are made with up to 83% recyclate and are not only recyclable in turn, but easy to remove and take back. Indeed, recyclate used in new products is often secured through take-back schemes which cover Tarkett’s own products and those offered by competitors. In FY2018, Tarkett used 134,000 tonnes of recyclate, representing 10% of its total resource use.

TerraCycle/Loop

Unveiled in January 2019, Loop enables corporates across the consumer goods and food and drink sectors to provide product refills while retaining ownership of their reusable packaging. While the concept of reusability is not new, Loop has attracted an unprecedented amount of interest, with more than brands signing up and 80,000 consumers registering, along with retail giants like Kroger and Tesco. To date, Loop has launched pilots in Paris and the US. Their success has paved the way for launches in five additional international markets in 2020.

Unilever

Helping consumers to better understand what they can do to reduce plastic waste is one of the key focus areas of Unilever’s Five Point Plastics Plan. To that end, the Cif Ecorefill format, consisting of a 10x concentrated product in a capsule which attaches to existing Power & Shine bottles, contains 75% less plastic than traditional bottles and maintains recyclability. Unilever has recorded positive responses from stockists and consumers alike, and with 93 million spray bottles sold in the UK annually, believes the innovation is scalable.

World of Books Group

World of Books’ entire business model is a circular economy innovation. Over the past decade, its inventory of used books has grown from 1,000 items to more than four million, with one book sold every two seconds globally. This growth has been largely facilitated through Ziffit.com, a digital tool that enables easy scanning for users and ensures that used goods purchased have resale value. Six hundred thousand items are now traded-in through Ziffit.com monthly in the UK, US and Ireland.

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Consultancy of the Year

Anthesis

Anthesis supports 25% of the FTSE 100 and 65 of the Fortune 500 companies with their sustainability challenges. It has doubled staff numbers in 2019 and delivered 25% year-on-year organic growth. Its green services include projects ranging from chemical compliance to creative brand strategy, enabled through its technology tools and analytics team. As an example, its work with Unite Students identified approximately £150m in lifetime savings through energy efficiency measures.

Bioregional

Led by Sue Riddlestone OBE, Bioregional works with business partners such as Kingfisher, Nando’s and Pizza Hut to developers including Landsec and Legal & General, challenging them to achieve a step-change in sustainability. Using One Planet Living as a starting point, work for corporate clients includes developing sustainability strategies and technical support on greenhouse gas footprinting and reporting on progress, as well as responding to the SDGs and circular economy thinking. For built environment clients, it helps envisage how end-users can lead sustainable lifestyles and translates this into the vision, strategy, masterplan and design process.

Carbon Credentials

Carbon Credentials has supported 45,000 buildings worldwide and assisted one in six companies setting approved science-based carbon targets. It has its own climate goal of maintaining zero operational emissions and dramatically cutting scope 3 value chain emissions by 2030, which has been approved by the Science-based Targets Initiative. It directly enabled the saving of 66,188 tonnes of CO2 in 2018 and raised more than £12,000 for charity in 2019.

Ecuity Consulting

Founded in 2012, Ecuity Consulting has worked with 250 companies in the past seven years on its sustainability strategy. Its work is to develop low-carbon projects including deployment of hydrogen fuel cell technology, heat pumps, energy efficiency, heat networks, and smart appliances. Additionally, it has supported the development of innovative technology for tackling fuel poverty within the UK as well as the transformation of existing energy assets within homes. In 2016, it launched its Hydrogen Hub, driving more than £1.5m of external investment in hydrogen and fuel cell projects and funding.

Energise

Energise aims to design services with the customers’ experience at the forefront. It provides a range of surveys and audits, strategy creation, data monitoring and analysis, and compliance, plus the implementation of projects and the offset of carbon emissions. A service roadmap is focused on planning industry by industry how net-zero can be achieved. A Customer Service Charter sets out how relationships are strategic rather than transactional and its strategy team ensures it can control the risks behind meeting net-zero. To date, it has delivered more than £100m in savings for clients.

Given London

Given combines sustainability, brand and communications expertise to build and deliver a company’s brand purpose in three ways: strategy setting, change making and storytelling. Three-quarters (75%) of its revenue comes from repeat business and it maintains client relationships through running regular client workshops, planning accounts together and supporting clients in securing buy-in of their organisations. It has worked with O2, Nationwide, IKEA and Virgin Media on projects.

JLL

In the past year, Upstream Sustainability Services has worked with 13 organisations developing and implementing sustainability strategies and seven health and wellbeing strategies. Additionally, it has finalised a circular economy strategy for a large Middle-Eastern client - the first of its kind in the region, it claims. Its services cover sustainability issues such as climate crisis and resource efficiency, circular economy advice, climate risk management aligned to TCFD guidance, and “Net Positive” strategic advice.

Longevity Partners

Property advisory firm Longevity Partners has assisted on low-carbon strategies in 25 countries for the largest property funds in the world in the past five years. Across three key areas – resilient cities, healthy buildings and responsible business – it helps with issues such as circular economy, distributed energy and storage, electric vehicle (EV) strategy, BREEAM ratings, climate adaptation, and sustainability reporting. Through these services, it helps major commercial energy consumers reduce their energy use and related carbon emissions as well as identify cost-saving opportunities.

Route2

Having worked with companies such as The Crown Estate and Heathrow, Route2 offers a framework to assess and evaluate the societal impact of direct and indirect operations, and how they degrade or enhance the capital stock which is vital to companies’ day-to-day activities. As a result of its work on creating measurement and reporting frameworks for companies, firms have gone on to perform highly in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices and Yorkshire Water was recognised by the regulator for its strategy.

SYSTEMIQ

Green services at SYSTEMIQ include creating a charter that requires clients to base their partnership on mutual commitment to the SDGs and the Paris Agreement. In the past four years, it has launched more than 150 projects with companies, governments and other organisations; from zero-emission aviation, to food businesses that protect the rainforest, to pioneering initiatives to stop ocean plastics, including supporting the Indonesian Government’s aim to reduce ocean plastic by 70% by 2025.

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Hubbub and Barley Communications

Leeds By Example is the UK’s biggest collaborative drive to boost recycling for “on-the-go” food and drinks packaging. Before the scheme launched in June 2018, Hubbub estimated that 17% of Leeds residents regularly recycled this packaging – a proportion which has now almost doubled (32%). The scheme, consisting of both infrastructure and communications, has secured the support of 25 big-name businesses and the local council, which has agreed to invest in making it a permanent fixture after a successful six-month trial.

Barnardo’s and Barley Communications

After polling revealed that UK residents were set to spend £2.7bn on 50.3 million summer outfits this year, only to wear them once, Barnado’s developed a behaviour change scheme that successfully turned public attention on plastics waste to the topic of fashion. By homing-in on summer “occasion” wear and making targeted calls to action, Barnado’s ensured its messaging was seen 220 million times and attracted an additional 26,000+ consumers to its shops in summer 2019.

Canary Wharf Group – Breaking the Plastic Habit

Through its targeted consumer engagement and marketing campaign, Canary Wharf Group has helped tenants, visitors and workers collectively mitigate the use of more than two million single-use plastic items and enabled the capture and recycling of five million more. The multi-pronged campaign consists of communications, events, campaigns, and the use of HELPFUL - an AI-enabled app that incentivises reuse and recycling. Its success saw the Group become the first commercial centre to receive Surfers Against Sewage’s Plastic-Free Communities status.

City to Sea – National Refill day

In a 24-hour event aimed at driving awareness around its popular Refill scheme, City To Sea garnered the support of Government departments, big businesses, celebrities including Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, and dozens of influencers. Homing in on transport ‘hubs’ and targeting social media content using #GotTheBottle, the day generated 30,000 downloads of the Refill app and saw businesses sign up to host 1,500 new refill stations, exceeding all targets. The success of the day came in spite of a tight budget and contributes to Refill’s overarching aim to make carrying reusables “the new normal”.

Dubai Electricity & Water Authority – Conservation Award for a Sustainable Future

From 50 schools at its inception in 2005, the Conservation Award campaign has grown to cover 459 schools collectively representing 380,000+ students. Its aim is to strategically create a culture of energy conservation across Dubai’s educational sector, taking in students and parents, teachers and principals, and facility managers alike. To date, 152,000 tonnes of carbon have been mitigated by these actors as a result of the campaign, which has gained the support of key policymakers.

Ella’s Kitchen – Become an EllaCycle Superhero!

In 2019, baby food brand Ella’s Kitchen committed to double the number of pouches collected annually through its recycling partnership with TerraCycle. It is on-track to achieve this aim after securing buy-in from Asda to scale-up the scheme – a move which enabled the installation of 200 new drop-off points. Key to the scheme’s success is its incentivisation: users are rewarded with a donation to a good cause of their choice for recycling pouches. To date, more than £50,000 has been donated in this way.

Greenredeem & Wokingham Borough Council – Making food waste more rewarding

Thanks to the support of Greenredeem’s bespoke marketing campaign including “nudges” such as emails, videos, quizzes and the creation of a pledge platform, Wokingham Borough Council has already exceeded its 2020 food waste diversion rate. By underpinning the dissemination of facts with fun activities and rewards, the seven-month campaign empowered Wokingham residents to complete 82,000 incentivised actions to divert food waste from landfill. So successful was the campaign in gaining resident trust that the Local Authority has extended its partnership with Greenredeem.

Garnier - Recycle Plastic To Make Your School Fantastic

In a drive to overcome the fragmentation of the UK’s kerbside recycling collections and the resulting public confusion on recyclability, L’Oreal partnered with Tesco, TerraCycle and We Are Futures to install take-back facilities at 1,350+ schools. As well as these facilities, each partaking school also receives educational tools to help children, families and staff understand how best to reduce, reuse and recycle. To date, the campaign has facilitated the recycling of 14.3 million plastic items and reached 283,000 children.

The Body Shop - Plastic with Bottle

By showing consumers that plastics recycling can deliver social benefits for marginalised waste pickers and incentivising in-store take-back box use, The Body Shop recorded a 91% increase in mentions across its social media channels and experienced double the expected take-up of its in-store recycling programme. More broadly, the firm believes these activities have made employees proud of the business and shifted consumer sentiment towards the brand, ultimately paving the way for a commitment to include community traded plastic in all packaging by 2023.

Royal Society of Chemistry and Weber Shandwick – Precious Elements: International Year of the Periodic Table

Aimed at helping consumers to stop hoarding used technology and placing these products back into circular systems, Precious Elements utilised the reach of the BBC and other major media firms to gain 3.9 million impressions on social media. This targeted approach caught not only the attention of the public but of business leaders, think tanks and policymakers, with several MPs submitting motions on e-waste to Parliament as a result of the campaign, and the Society being asked to contribute to numerous Government enquiries and reports.

Consumer Engagement/Marketing Campaign of the Year

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Employee Engagement & Behaviour Change Initiative of the Year

Barry Callebaut – Seeds for ChangeLaunched in 2018 to build on the firm’s vision to make sustainable chocolate the norm, Seeds for Change incentivises Barry Callebaut employees to complete actions that reduce emissions or capture carbon by rewarding them with seedlings to be planted by cocoa farmers in Africa. Judges said the scheme was robustly designed, expertly utilising behavioural psychology around competitiveness, charitable donations and community action, ultimately engaging all departments with the business’s long-term sustainability goals.

Investec & Hubbub Enterprise – Investec’s Team GreenBy relaunching a nationwide network of employees volunteering as environmental champions, Investec has taken energy and enthusiasm for sustainability beyond the bounds of its CR team. Actions inspired by Team Green were made both at work and at home, with participants rewarded through giveaways and provided with the practical advice and tools needed to overcome any barriers. Impressively, 95% of staff said Team Green events were interesting and 90% said they wanted to keep taking part.

KPMG – Waste In Our Time/ Blue Planet II Employee EventsIn order to engage employees with its overarching sustainability goals, KPMG piggybacked off the so-called “Blue Planet II effect” to generate a scheme which has garnered more than 1,050 plastic pledges. Through a dedicated network of “champions”, a series of bespoke events and targeted digital content, the sustainability team was able to gain broad buy-in across leadership, other departments and the company’s social media audience. KPMG has already removed 7.4 million single-use-plastic items from its UK facilities.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust – Greening Healthcare in ManchesterBy combining a dynamic online platform, creative communications, competition, prizes and robust monitoring systems, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust has seen staff collectively complete 18,000 positive actions for the environment. Employees praised the new scheme’s compatibility with their busy, often shift-based, work schedules, and the fact that they can track personal progress and compete with colleagues in real-time. Within four months, the scheme mitigated 17,000tCO2e.

National Grid – Save Evie’s WhaleAs it works to eliminate single-use plastics from its main sites by 2020, National Grid is bringing staff on the journey. Focusing in on the wildlife-related passions of Evie – an employee’s daughter – the campaign encourages workers to consider the impact of plastic pollution on the health and wellbeing of future generations, through channels such as digital communications, new bins, league tables, signage and a “loan” system for reusable cups. Since the campaign launched, more than two million single-use items have been removed from the business.

Sonae – Corporate responsibility actions against fires in PortugalFollowing Portugal’s largest ever forest fire in June 2017, Sonae has gone beyond one-off gestures and developed a continuing programme of employee-led community support. Collectively, 115 of Sonae’s staff have raised more than €11,000; spent almost 1,500 hours volunteering; distributed thousands of sundries and planted more than 4,500 trees, with the scheme receiving support from The National Association of Forest, Agriculture and Environment Enterprises and a string of local authorities.

WWF and Silverback Films – Our Planet: Our BusinessIn the first three months after its launch, Our Planet: Our Business was screened at dozens of big businesses in more than 55 nations. The 40-minute film successfully translates profound global challenges into likely impacts on businesses without causing fear and hopelessness, empowering viewers to go beyond incremental improvements and drive industrial-scale change. As such, it’s becoming increasingly viral. CSR teams are reporting that the film has galvanised cross-departmental collaboration.

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Energy Efficiency Project of the Year

British Independent Utilities (BiU)Direct Line Group’s (DLG) environmental responsibility policy sets a target of reducing energy across its offices by 30%, and greenhouse gasses by 57% from 2013-2020. DLG engaged with BiU to set a baseline figure for energy consumption across a range of sites, and then pen a strategy that would see an overall 30% reduction through a seven-year project. The strategy involved a combination of staff engagement and technological upgrades, including BMS controls and LED upgrades that have made DLG confident it will reach the target before 2020.

Clear ChannelAdvertising company Clear Channel last year began a national rollout of low-energy LED light tubes and reduced its energy consumption by 3.5 millionkWh. The tubes were installed at bus shelters next to accompanying advertisements. The desire to reduce energy consumption was further driven by the expanding number of digital installations, which are more energy intensive. The quality of lighting in advertising boxes has improved, by being brighter and with better diffusion. To date, 46,000 tubes have been fitted and there have only been 97 recorded failures.

En+ GroupEn+ Group delivered a more than 1,400,000MWh increase in renewable energy output from its hydropower plants in the year through its programme to improve the efficiency of its plants. This increase was achieved without increasing the amount of water running through the turbines. This increased the share of renewable energy in the Siberian energy grid, enabling the region to replace coal generation, leading to a continuous reduction in emissions by En+ Group’s aluminium business. The programme will lead to a 2.6 million tonnes reduction in CO2 emissions per year by 2025.

IbstockIbstock’s new Eclipse brick factory has acted as a best-practice test-bed for energy management technologies which have since been implemented in other factories and buildings. Built with sustainability in mind, the factory has led to fuel efficiency upgrades, LED rollouts, electric vehicle infrastructure investments and onsite renewable installations across a variety of buildings. It has acted as a major part of Ibstock’s carbon efficiency journey, by improving manufacturing efficiency, delivering optimum sustainability and reducing overall environmental impact.

Marble PowerMarble Power’s “Water Battery” project was applied to Liberty’s 90-year-old hydro-generation and aluminium smelting assets in Fort William to balance the Scottish electrical grid. By absorbing more than 30,000MWh of wind power, the site will be able to reduce its cost of operation and also better manage its exposure to increasingly frequent periods of sustained dry weather. As it applied existing assets to a new application, it has the added benefit of requiring little upfront investment.

TUPRASTUPRAS refineries have complex utility systems to satisfy their dynamic energy demand and fluctuating fuel costs. This project has focused on developing an in-house decision support tool to monitor the energy network of the refinery and manage it efficiently. The tool also enables the effective management of both water and utility costs. Another added benefit is that the programme is also used to determine the energy impacts of five-year investment projects and to examine feasibility.

Whitbread - Premier InnEdinburgh Park Premier Inn became the UK’s first battery-powered hotel in a bid to improve energy efficiency, secure power supply, enable energy cost savings and reduce carbon. The innovative 100kW lithium-ion battery trial was built on data analysis, site surveyance and project lifetime management. It gives the site better control as to when it uses energy, and efficiency improvements are still a key ambition for the company. The flexibility means Whitbread can adapt to any changes in pricing mechanisms and manage its profile.

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Energy Management Leader of the Year

Karla Hill

Karla leads ClientEarth’s energy management work, which uses legal tools to support the transition to a zero-carbon energy system by advocating for policy changes that deter fossil fuel generation. Karla was ClientEarth’s first employee and has helped grow the charity to almost 40 lawyers and experts. Alongside lobbying against coal production cases across Europe, Karla has refined ClientEarth’s environmental policy, with a strong focus on energy efficiency, reducing unnecessary travel and ensuring pensions providers do not invest in fossil fuels.

Michael McGowan

As group sustainability manager, Michael is the driving force behind the Group’s Sustainability Roadmap to 2025, and played a key role in getting the Executive Leadership team to publish Ibstock’s sustainability targets for the first time. Through Michael’s leadership, it now takes almost 65% less energy to make a brick than was the case in the 1970s. Over the next five years, Ibstock is on target to achieve a minimum 15% reduction in C02 per tonne of production, largely due to Michael’s ability to steer the whole company towards its energy goals.

Pavan Juttla

As sustainability manager, Pavan has worked to raise the company’s carbon ambitions through science-based targets, including realigning the business from a 2C trajectory to a 1.5C, net-zero trajectory. She is now extending this scope to lead a programme to support other companies, notably in the construction supply chain; to measure their footprint, develop science-based targets and create robust carbon reduction strategies to push the sector towards a low-carbon future. Pavan was able to achieve all of this by engaging with the heads of each department internally, making energy and sustainability business-critical in the process.

Rustin Cooper

Lead energy manager Rustin has worked for M&S as a contractor through Coopertec, evolving from a maternity cover to the driving force behind M&S’s flexibility agenda. This includes reducing peak load for TRIAD by 25%, fostering R&D and trialling innovative Internet of Things technologies to deliver a 5% absolute electricity reduction. Alongside technological trials, Rustin has been successful in engaging employees on energy efficiency and igniting behavioural shifts across the workforce. Prior to his interim lead energy manager role, Rustin was instrumental in delivering more than £40m of capital investment for energy.

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Investor of the Year

CBRE Global InvestorsCBRE Global Investors has devised and rolled out a framework for managing environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues across its UK investment portfolio. The programme consists of a three-year plan that evaluates risks in its portfolio based on extensive investor feedback as part of a materiality review. Targets and key performance indicators have been drawn up for each portfolio, and risks are evaluated in accordance to the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures recommendations and other global frameworks, as well as aligning with Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) recommendations.

Cyan FinancePart of Cyan Finance’s investment thesis is that sustainability is not priced in, and once it is, the price of goods and services will shift. As such, all investment decisions are built on the basis of whether a business can deliver real environmental and social purpose. Since launching in early 2019, the company has mapped out certain sectors as starting points to drive change, notably e-mobility. Despite being a small team, Cyan Finance has already designed bespoke financial products for R&D financing and grant financing and executing equity, debt and asset finance deals.

Salix FinanceUpfront capital is a barrier for most public sector organisations, and Salix Finance works to provide interest-free funding to enable organisations within the sector to improve energy efficiency by accessing low-carbon technologies. Salix launched a £25m fund for maintained schools looking to install energy efficiency measures, amongst other examples, and reissued the Public Sector Network to facilitate conversations around the topic of climate change in the sector.

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Product Innovation of the Year

Air ProteinBy 2050, global food production demands are set to grow by 70%. Kiverdi’s Air Protein aims to meet that demand in a sustainable way, by capturing elements from air and combining them with water and minerals to create nutrients through a process like fermentation. The result is a protein-rich flour with the same amino acid profile as animal protein. Kiverdi claims this process, debuted in 2019, uses 10,000 times less land and 2,000 times less water than soy protein production.

AJC TrailersAJC Trailers has designed a range of mobile and static welfare and accommodation units that are powered by a combination of onsite solar, battery storage and hydrogen gas. While traditional units typically run off diesel generators, AJC Trailers’ innovation purports to be zero-emission, reducing not only carbon emissions, but air and noise pollution. The cost saving potential of the trailers is considerable, with a 71% reduction in fuel costs recorded during a recent six-week trial.

Aquapak PolymersAquapak produces materials that can be used by the plastics and paper industries to reduce the end-of-life impact of their products, without the need for purchasing new machinery. It has patented three materials, all of which are designed for recycling within existing infrastructure and for multiple other disposal options. Its Hydropol 30160 series is hot-water-soluble, for example, while its Hydropol 33100 is warm-water-soluble. These products are already being used commercially by retailer Finisterre and distributor DB Packaging.

Beattie PassiveHaus4one is a modular, relocatable one-person home that meets Passivhaus standards on sustainability and occupant wellbeing. It purports to consume up to 80% less energy than comparable bricks-and-mortar properties, and to be far cheaper, at £55,000 per unit, largely due to the fact that it is constructed off-site. Beattie Passive believes that its innovation, if rolled out at scale, could help councils and governments deliver on their pledges around temporary accommodation and fuel poverty.

Bowman Power GroupBowman’s efficiency technologies for the power industry have prevented the extraction of £80m of fossil fuels to date, mitigating 250,000 tonnes of emissions in the process. Its latest technology, ETC 100, converts waste exhaust energy into electrical power, helping to improve power density and fuel efficiency whilst reducing emissions. The innovation was developed over a four-year period in direct collaboration with academics, research bodies, and businesses including Cummins and Rolls-Royce Power Systems. Bowman claims that there are more than 400,000 engines globally which could use the technology.

Continental and KordsaResorcinol-Formaldehyde-Latex formulation, including carcinogenic chemicals such as formaldehyde, has been used by the tyre industry for about a century as a standard. COKOON – developed over a nine-year period involving 11,240 tests – is a viable alternative to this unsustainable material. Beyond its environmental and health benefits, COKOON is quicker to prepare and can coat more surface with the same amount of product, therefore saving users operational costs.

Garçon WinesThe design of Garçon Wines’ eco flat wine bottle is 87% lighter and 40% spatially smaller than a traditional glass bottle, allowing 2.3 times more wine to fit on a pallet, thus slashing carbon emissions and logistics costs by up to 60%. The firm uses 100% recycled PET to make its bottles and encourages consumers to recycle them in turn. It has successfully transitioned from a B2B to a B2C model, with the format’s letterbox-friendly design saving both emissions and costs associated with missed deliveries.

PowervaultPowervault 3 aims to provide an intelligent battery solution for smart homes. Trials of the battery, which is monitored remotely using a cloud-based system, have reduced user electricity costs by up to 50% and cut the carbon emissions of their households by 0.3 tonnes when combined with onsite solar. Aware of the waste issues associated with batteries and the fast-moving nature of the market, Powervault 3 is modular, enabling for easier upgrades and recycling.

PropelairUsing air to propel water around the toilet bowl, Propelair results in the use of 84% less water per flush than a standard system. This, in turn, can reduce user water bills by up to 60%; user toilet-related emissions by up to 80%; and airborne germs by up to 95%. Several universities, council buildings, theatres, service stations, banks and restaurants are already using the innovative toilets. Throughout 2019, these organisations will save 1.2 billion litres of water by using Propelair.

Rosh EngineeringOne litre of alkyd paint can release 750ml of solvents through evaporation – but Rosh Engineering’s water-based, industrial-grade paint, developed in partnership with SK Formulations, claims to reduce that to zero. It dries at temperatures of 6C and above in less than an hour without the need for a primer coat, minimising costs and disruption for utilities. Given that the UK’s electricity industry alone uses more than 10 million litres of paint annually, the potential to scale-up is considerable.

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Rising Sustainability Star

George Barnes

Since joining JRP Solutions in 2013 as trainee consultant, George has consistently driven initiatives that improve JRP’s own credentials and expand the scope of its services. In recent months, he has initiated and led the development of a gap analysis tool for those aiming to meet ISO 50001, and received praise from several key clients for his in-depth work on implementing this standard. He is currently managing more than 20 active contracts while working to become a Chartered Energy Manager.

Steve Burgess

During his seven years in sustainability, Steve has risen up the ranks from operational environmental management to strategy level through his passion, dedication and resilience. His recent achievements include working closely with suppliers to introduce a single-use-plastic-free restaurant at Media City, and helping to ensure that BBC’s new Central Square development achieved BREEAM Outstanding status. He has proven himself to be an expert in engaging facilities and catering providers, among other key stakeholders, with BBC’s overall sustainability strategy.

Eleanor King

Within her first year as a sustainability consultant, Eleanor published leading-edge guidance on responsible sourcing for the construction industry, and, since joining AECOM in 2017, she has helped embed sustainability into a range of organisations from government agencies to global pharmaceutical and renewable energy businesses. But her colleagues have additionally praised her for going above and beyond to promote the sustainability agenda outside of her project delivery role, challenge the status quo and forge internal and external collaborations.

Joanna Leyden

Joanna has continued to impress colleagues and clients across her 18 months at ISS, being fast-tracked in her training and having three of her key projects shortlisted for awards. Colleagues praised her ability to maximise positive outcomes by engaging even hard-to-reach departments, influencing colleagues, clients and the wider sustainability agenda in her sector. Stand-out projects include the development of a zero-waste workplace solution for a client with more than 6,000 staff, and a reusable container system for another with more than 2,000 staff.

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Rising Sustainability Star (Cont.)

Kaushal Shah

EnvoPAP is the brainchild of Kaushal, who has been described as a determined, perseverant innovator. The start-up, designed to align with eight of the UN’s SDGs, turns agricultural waste from sugarcane production into premium quality paper products. This business model creates a second life for waste, minimises the environmental impacts of products and creates jobs in developing economies. Kaushal regularly engages with young entrepreneurs outside of the business and has been described as a true team player and excellent mentor.

Emma Sheron

Since joining RELX as a CR intern in early 2019, Emma has progressed rapidly and now plays a key part in the delivery and ongoing development of the firm’s SDG Resource Centre. The Centre provides open access to academic research and resources driving SDG-related progress, and, thanks to Emma’s hard work, reaches 81,000 unique visitors monthly. Internally, Emma has led an international engagement scheme on the SDGs, encouraging friendly competition between RELX’s more than 30,000 staff.

Aleksandra Smith-Kozlowska

Aleksandra’s colleagues say she is the first to jump into any new sustainability project – no matter how challenging. Since joining JLL in 2016, she has worked with a range of businesses to help them understand their material issues and maximise positive impacts, and played a key role in shaping JLL Upstream’s overarching strategy. Her key achievements include developing the company’s Circular Office Guide in conjunction with BITC, and having this document “translated” to appeal to teams from finance to facilities management.

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SME of the Year

e-cargobikes.come-cargobikes has grown into a thriving SME that is promoting scalable, zero-emission, last-mile delivery solutions that help remedy air pollution and congestion in busy urban areas. A relentless approach to innovation means one e-cargobike vehicle could deliver as much as a 3.5-ton van, a feat that has led to partnerships with notable end-users like Sainsbury’s and Co-op. Internally, the company is working to embody the SDGs in how it operates.

JPA FurnitureMore than 90,000 redundant office furniture items are sent to landfill every week and JPA has shown that even SMEs can combat this. The family SME wants to leave a lasting legacy in its local community by championing the circular economy. JPA has diverted more than 24,300 items from landfill (510 tonnes) and rehomed more than 4,100 furniture items. JPA is creating added benefits for its clients through environmental, financial and social performance.

Pure PlanetPure Planet is Britain’s first digital energy supplier and the first domestic supplier to offer 100% renewable electricity and 100% carbon offset gas in a single variable tariff, making clean energy a mass-market consumer choice. The digital membership model means rates can be changed based on wholesale energy prices. Pure Planet is also the only small independent energy supplier to be a signatory of the UN Global Compact and is focusing on each SDG on a monthly basis internally.

SunGift EnergySunGift Energy has been disrupting the energy market through innovative projects, ranging from electric vehicle (EV) charging on top of multi-storey car parks, to a hundred residential properties operating as a mini-grid. Internally, sustainability is delivered from a top-down approach that has seen the board champion the company’s innovative approach to energy systems. SunGift Energy also supports all staff with subsidised energy systems of their own, as well as encouraging them to cycle to work, including via electric-assisted bikes for longer commuters.

The ExterminatorsSince rolling out a carbon-neutral certification plan in 2014, all operational activities and services provided by The Exterminators are 100% carbon-neutral and the company is Asia’s only carbon-neutral pest control company. The organisation is extending its scope of influence outside of its operations and has set-up methods to supports customers, other SMEs and the entire sectors with the means to converse and engage on sustainable business practices.

Toast AleToast Ale believes in pint-sized solutions to global problems in a way that connects people and shows them that small and simple steps can lead to big climate impacts. The company’s planet-saving beer is brewed with surplus fresh bread and all profits go to charities fixing the food system. A decision to rebrand amid rapidly growing public awareness around climate change enables the firm to promote sustainability information in a way that catches consumer attention.

Wills Bros Civil EngineeringWills Bros Civil Engineering (WBCEL) commitment to becoming a net-zero company by 2050 and becoming the first civil engineering contractor to be recognised by the United Nations as carbon-neutralare ambitions and achievements held by very few SMEs. Keen to raise this level of ambition elsewhere, WBCEL is determined to adopt innovative technologies, re-define best practice and share the successes and learnings with stakeholders and supply chain partners.

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Social Sustainability & Community Development

Anglian Water

Anglian Water’s Keep It Clear is a behavioural change programme tackling the problem of pollution and flooding in communities caused by blockages in sewer pipes - 85% of which are avoidable. Success was achieved through inspiring behavioural change at home and work by engaging with a series of campaigns and strategies. The company worked with communities, businesses, local authorities, environmental charities, schools and food premises, providing free advice.

Boreal Light GmbH

Boreal Light GmbH have designed and manufactured an affordable solar water desalination system capable of desalinating 1,000 litres of seawater for the cost of less than €0.5 in off-grid communities across East Africa. To date, more than 2,000 people have directly engaged in water delivery, farming, fish farming, operation or maintenance with more than 400,000 people capable of receiving daily water needs from projects. Each Water Kiosk offsets 1,250tCO2 per year, produces three permanent jobs and 25 value-added jobs.

City Harvest

City Harvest helps put surplus food to good use sustainably by distributing to organisations that feed the hungry. It has enabled hundreds of businesses to achieve SDGs by redistributing their surplus food to those who need it most. To date it has delivered seven million meals to more than 300 partner charities. City Harvest introduced high impact “last mile” food rescue as the solution to food waste and food poverty.

Honeywell Hometown Solutions

The Honeywell-Safe Water Network Initiative (SWN) is building 180 water stations in India to provide safe water access to more than 540,000 people. In Telangana specifically, Honeywell has already built 150 water stations across 17 districts, catering to 480,000 people. In addition to improving access and sustainably managing clean water, SWN is educating communities on the importance of clean water, sanitation, and hygiene, creating jobs, empowering women, and building visibility for India’s water crisis.

Kimberly-Clark

Kimberly-Clark has developed its Toilets Change Lives programme to engage its brands and consumers in ways to improve access to sanitation in vulnerable communities around the world. Through partnerships between its well-known brands like Andrex and Scott and global NGOs like Water For People and WaterAid, the company is increasing awareness of the global sanitation crisis, providing education and advocacy to drive behaviour change, and supporting programs that provide access to clean, safe toilets.

Maybank

Maybank Women Eco-Weavers (MWEW) programme promotes traditional textiles globally in a sustainable manner, while creating economic independence and financial inclusion for women weavers across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region. This programme attempts to preserve the ASEAN heritage by leveraging the ancient art of textile weaving as the proponent of economic development in the region. As a bank, the company take additional steps to help its eco-weaver beneficiaries be economically included.

NHS Property Services

The Michael Burke Wellbeing Centre is one of the country’s first dedicated social prescribing facilities, turning underutilised space in an NHS hospital into a facility that both community and clinical groups can use to improve the wellbeing of the local population and enable the general public to take more ownership of their health. It follows 20% of GP appointments being for non-medical issues, illustrating how NHS space can be utilised to reduce demand on primary care services.

OVO Foundation – OVO Energy

Project Jua brings solar power to schools and health services in parts of Kenya for the first time. Launched in 2017, the £2m project is funded by the OVO Foundation and aims to improve the health and education of more than 300,000 people by providing lighting and powering lifesaving equipment. It also paves the way for energy to be used in other education and health programmes in the development sector through a focus on data collection to better understand institutional energy needs.

The Body Shop

The Body Shop is sustainably sourcing recycled plastic for its packaging from the streets of Bengaluru in India through its Community Trade programme. Partnering with Plastics For Change and Hasiru Dala, a non-governmental organisation that fights for waste picker rights, the companies aim to provide fair prices, predictability of volume and access to better working conditions for 2,500 waste pickers over the next three years.

Virgin Media

Virgin Media has committed to supporting one million disabled people with the skills and confidence to get into and stay in work by the end of 2020. The Support to Work Service is a digital employment service for disabled people run by Scope and funded by Virgin Media. The service was set up in recognition of the significant barriers disabled people often face accessing employment. Using Scope’s expertise and Virgin Media’s platform, the service aims to drive a quantifiable, positive impact on the skills and confidence of disabled people in the UK, enabling them to achieve employment ambitions.

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Supply Chain Excellence

DefraDefra’s IT function is embedding sustainability through an e-Sustainability Alliance (DeSA) consisting of Dell, Vodafone, Google, Microsoft and BT amongst others, to create a best-practice industry guide on sustainability in information and communication technology (ICT). Engagement, enforcing and monitoring has enabled DeSA to set supply chain targets focusing on 100% renewable energy, 95% reuse and zero to landfill, compliance on modern slavery and 100% transparency of key issues, equality, diversity and inclusion act, health and safety, as well as adhering to ISO standards and tackling water stress.

Ella’s KitchenElla’s Kitchen’s survey to gain a greater understanding of the mindset of its suppliers achieved its own mindset change in the process. Today, four out of the company’s five largest suppliers have committed to achieving full B Corp status, with one supplier already certified. Following the in-depth survey, Ella’s Kitchen provided suppliers with scorecards based on data received and the organisation will use the data and scorecards to engage with suppliers to create practical steps to improve approaches to sustainability and societal impacts.

General MillsTwo-thirds of emissions and 99% of water use occur outside General Mills’ operations, making the supply chain a key management area for the firm. In 2019, the company pursued ambitions moving beyond mitigation and reduction and committed to advancing regenerative farming practices on one million acres of farmland by 2030. Carbon reductions have also been targeted across the value chain as part of a science-based target to reduce absolute emissions across the full value chain by 28% by 2025.

Heathrow AirportHeathrow has worked with 56% of its direct suppliers (16 companies) on projects aimed at reducing emissions and is part of forums such as the Heathrow Sustainability Partnership, which aims to deliver and promote practical sustainability solutions that cover the Airport’s Energy Code of Practice. This enabled the airport to achieve level 3 Carbon Trust Supply chain accreditation, one of only three companies to do so. The Airport is a London Living Wage (LLW) employer and is ensuring all direct suppliers were also guaranteed the LLW movement.

KPMG UKKPMG UK’sSustainable Procurement Programme is having a material influence on suppliers’ impact. A key result of this collaborative approach to supply chain management is carbon reductions. Partnering with its top 50 suppliers (48% of total supplier spend), KPMG UK provided guidance on how they can measure and report their emissions. As a result, some have set their own environmental policies and a majority of key suppliers have reported a decrease in their carbon emissions.

Morgan Sindall InfrastructureMorgan Sindall is aiming to reduce scope 3 emissions by 25% by 2025, this includes purchased goods and upstream transport, and have 70% of its suppliers set their own science-based targets. The company is promoting this through collaborative workshops which explore innovative new products and services. A workshop with Tarmac and Brunel University, for example, resulted in ideas that will reduce emissions throughout the lifecycle of concrete manufacture, which will benefit the wider built environment sector. Other long-term supplier relations are scoping new methods that can lower emissions in the aviation sector.

Penguin Random HouseOver the past year, publisher Penguin Random House UK invested in its supply chain to focus on single-use plastic and energy consumption. Through bespoke engagement programmes, Penguin Random House has cut single-use plastic within its warehouses by 47%. Energy consumption has been reduced by 9% despite increasing floor space over the same period. The company helped suppliers understand the plastic issue and, following a positive response, the procurement strategy has changed by not procuring any form of single-use plastic within the distribution centres.

Innovation GatewayPartners including Tesco, Heathrow, RBS, Kingfisher, Places for People, Nottingham City Council, Unite Students, BT, Greene King, and the NHS are convening through the Innovation Gateway to share best-practice approaches, performance data from pilots and sourcing the innovations they need to address their toughest built environment challenges through a “Power of Many” approach. Since 2014, more than 700 innovations have been sourced as Innovation Gateway continues to de-risk the adoption of innovative technologies and democratising the next big sustainability ideas.

SkyIn 2017, Sky launched Sky Ocean Rescue to shine a light on the problem of single-use plastics and inspire action for our oceans. Sky wants to lead by example on this, working to remove all single-use plastic from its business, products and supply chain by 2020. Through formal policies and in-depth studies, Sky has eliminated more than 300 tonnes of single-use plastic from its supply chain so far and is on-track to reach 1,000 tonnes by the end of 2020.

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Sustainability Leader of the Year

Jim Brisby

Under Jim’s leadership, Cranswick has set an ambitious vision to become the most sustainable global meat business by 2030 – and to help actors across the wider food system to take action on climate change. Jim has also been the driving force behind the company’s action on plastics, which is centred around transparency, site-specific engagement and stakeholder collaboration, and has seen 800 tonnes removed from the business since 2018.

Martin Gettings

Martin’s colleagues describe him as a natural storyteller who passionately believes in tackling challenges at the personal and global level, as well as on a business basis, “making sustainability real”. In his role at Canary Wharf Group, he has built a new long-term sustainability strategy and gained board-level agreement, mandate and budget to deliver on its ambitions – including sector-leading circular economy goals. Additionally, he has created a strong new sustainability department to deliver on this vision.

Emma Harvey

Drawn by both the challenge and opportunities of a carbon-intensive sector, Emma has built on Virgin Atlantic’s sustainability plans over her nine-year tenure to deliver a long-term framework built on multi-stakeholder, evidence-based approaches. She’s redefined and developed Virgin Atlantic’s carbon strategy to include support for net-zero, with her hard work having resulted in a multi-million-pound fleet renewal programme; 20% emissions reductions since 2007; a 2018-19 CDP leadership score of A-; and advances in the company’salternative fuel partnership with LanzaTech.

Cathryn Higgs

Cathryn has led the Co-op’s ethics and sustainability work for more than 20 years, with colleagues praising her unwavering determination to deliver continual people-focused progress across challenges ranging from Fairtrade sourcing to climate change and packaging. She has been instrumental in Co-op’s alignment with the UN’s SDGs; its introduction of compostable carrier bags; and its continued collaboration across the wider retail sector on ethical sourcing, always striving to uplift others along the way.

Simone Hindmarch

Energy, belief and empowerment of others are the mainstay of Simone’s approach. Since joining Commercial, she has developed and delivered an award-winning employee engagement and sustainability leadership programme which has delivered 19 projects to completion and, more broadly, inspired professionals across the UK to take responsibility for the part they can play in tackling key challenges. Within the business, she drove the delivery of its target to reduce emissions by 75% in three years and continues to demonstrate the business case for ambitious action as Commercial grows.

Robert Spencer

Robert’s strategy is built on climate risk, natural capital and circular economy innovations. Since joining AECOM, he has led much of the firm’s internal and client-facing sustainability work, including the development of its UK & Ireland sustainability policy and, latterly, its climate emergency response framework. Outside of his main role, Robert is researching net-gain as chair of the Environmental Industries Commission Natural Capital Task Force and is global technical lead for GNIplus – an organisation working to help Kenya align with the Paris Agreement.

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Sustainability Leader of the Year (Cont.)

Louise Townsend

Louise has created and implemented Morgan Sindall Group’s sustainability and social value strategy, posited as the first of its kind within the global construction sector. But it is her ability to collaborate as well as strategise – with all manner of stakeholders – which shone through for the judges. She continues to deliver effective engagement programmes for 6,000 of Morgan Sindall’s employees and moer than 25,000 of its supply chain workers; and her ability to align environmental with community and economy has attracted the attention of both central Government and devolved powers in Wales and Scotland.

José Villalón

José brings deep experience in both private-sector farming and NGO sustainability engagement to Nutreco, which is working to drive transformational change towards a sustainable food sector. Besides leading the company’s sustainability strategising, reporting, supply chain auditing and NGO partnerships, he is the co-founder and chair of the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC), which now certifies more than 1.7 million tonnes of seafood annually. He also played a core role in Nutreco’s signing of the Cerrado Manifesto on deforestation.

Richard Walker

After joining Iceland as a cashier in 2012, Richard has worked tirelessly and now uses his standing to advocate for charity and environmental issues. Colleagues describe Richard as having a personal drive to challenge and change the status quo around climate and social justice – a drive which has resulted in the company setting industry-leading plastics and palm oil pledges. Whether through his engagement with staff or consumers, Richard’s mission is to “democratise environmentalism”.

Kate Weinberg

Kate is one half of OVO Energy’s two-woman sustainability team, which has had a transformational impact on the business since it was set up in 2018. The company is going beyond incremental improvements with its long-term Plan Zero strategy, which commits it to net-zero by 2030 and, more broadly, to “solving the climate crisis” through collaboration with customers. One particularly visionary idea Kate initiated and developed is a membership model for OVO Energy, which aims to engage a new class of “prosumers” with the energy transition.

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Sustainability Reporting & Communications

ArcelorMittal supported by FalconWindsor

In 2018, ArcelorMittal published its first climate action report, combining financial and non-financial performance to engage stakeholders. The report forms part of its easy-to-use online reporting suite, which also includes the company’s factbook and integrated annual review. ArcelorMittal has experienced a 360% increase in downloads of its integrated annual review since switching to this innovative, platform-based format, while maintaining alignment with frameworks such as the GRI and TCFD.

Arm

Arm has recorded a 6,000% increase in views of its sustainability pages since its 2018 reporting was produced. By using a two-report structure (one global goals report and one sustainability data report) and complementing these documents with a short video summarising key achievements, the technology giant has successfully made its disclosures engaging to a range of internal and external stakeholders. Overall, Arm’s reports clearly explain how the business is delivering projects to address 14 of the UN’s 17 SDGs.

Bakkafrost

Bakkafrost was a Best-Performer in the 2019 Coller-FAIRR-Protein-Producer-Index, partly due to the increased transparency measures implemented for its annual sustainability report. Available as both a 40-page document and a concise web page, the report aligns with GRI frameworks and uses a traffic-light system to enable readers to track progress at a glance. For 2019, information on topics including fish mortality causes, ecosystem management in fjords, and packaging materials were added for the first time.

Co-op

Co-op’s sustainability reporting backs up the claims the retailer showcases in its It’s What We Do communications campaign, tracking progress against the SDGs and internal KPIs in accordance with GRI and UNGC requirements. Co-op claims that third-party assurance of its reporting is the most robust in its sector and prides itself on the wide scope of topics covered. The report has underpinned the success of Co-op’s advertising campaign, which has been seen more than nine times by eight-in-10 Brits.

Shell

As it strives to halve the net carbon footprint of the energy products it sells by 2050, Shell’s 2018 sustainability report provides readers with in-depth information on progress and challenges across 65 topics. The report is accessible in the form of a PDF and a webpage – both of which have an interactive table of contents and the latter of which is searchable. It is aligned with the UNGC and received Shell’s highest WBCSD reporting score to date.

SIG

Documenting progress towards its net-positive ambitions, SIG’s CR 2018 report showcases the company’s industry-leading projects while being transparent around challenges and shortfalls. Indeed, it features direct reporting from the company’s external CR advisory group. The report is aligned with the SDGs and the GRI requirements and uses bold visuals to tell time-pressed users about SIG’s progress in going “Way Beyond Good” to deliver a net-positive impact on people and planet.

Smurfit Kappa and Emperor

Smurfit Kappa uses a three-piece reporting suite – consisting of a detailed 70-page report, summary report and ‘super-summary’ report – to ensure that its publications are accessible to a range of stakeholders. The company claims that this framework has enabled clear articulation of its overall approach and key projects. All three of the reports contain an easy-to-understand infographic, developed using stakeholder-led methodology, and case studies showcasing best practice.

Tüpraş (Turkish Petroleum Refineries Corporation)

Tüpraş’ sustainability reporting is based on the results of a comprehensive materiality assessment and stands out in that both quantitative and qualitative information on progress is provided across all focus areas. The SDG-aligned and GRI-compliant report details positive and negative impacts with equal weighting and, to enable users to make clear comparisons, also contains charts and data sets regarding the wider petroleum industry. It is available both online and as a PDF, in both Turkish and English, and claims to be Turkey’s first GRI-compliant CR report.

Ulker Biskuvi San. ve Tic. A.S.

Ulker Biskuvi’s sustainability report tracks progress towards the company’s 2024 goals – recorded through comprehensive and independently asserted materiality assessments – as well as providing information on wider trends and opinions from executives. The report is accompanied by a “Z-card” infographic to provide key information at a glance, and has been repeatedly promoted by Ulker Biskuvi during its year-round calendar of webinars. It has additionally helped top-level executives to share information on social media.

VEON Group

VEON Group’s sustainability report provides not only quantitative data, but stories of the individuals and groups who have benefitted from its CSR efforts worldwide. These “VEON voices” humanise the company’s efforts, conveying the impacts of its projects to external stakeholders and providing a good hook to attract report views via social media. The GRI-aligned report itself provides easy-to-read data across four key business functions, positioning ethics and environment as equally important as – and intrinsically linked to – financial performance.

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Team of the Year

Canary Wharf GroupIn June 2019, Canary Wharf Group became the world’s first commercial centre to achieve Plastic Free Community (PFC) status from marine conservation charity Surfers Against Sewage (SAS). This was the result of a 12-month commitment and dedication from a core project team that created and deployed the plan and galvanised collective action from within the business and externally with tenants, partners, suppliers and the 150,000 working population of Canary Wharf.

Dubai Electricity & Water AuthorityThe team at Dubai Electricity & Water Authority has deployed an advanced metering infrastructure-water project, which involved an integrated system of smart meters, communications networks, and data management systems to ensure bilateral communications between utilities and customers. This project contributed to the reduction of unaccounted for water from 8.2% in 2015 to 6.5% in 2018, saving 2.1 billion gallons of water and reducing 49,747tCO2e.

Ella’s KitchenThrough its ‘Good Stuff We Do’ team and report, the company has conducted a materiality assessment on its business, developed a new sustainability strategy and committed to meeting 20 targets by 2024 to improve its social and environmental impact. Additionally, it has targeted consumers through partnerships with FareShare and Action against Hunger, and coordinated volunteering days for staff. The team sits at the heart of the Ella’s Kitchen business and inspires the wider “Be the Change” team and prioritises sustainability initiatives.

EO ChargingThe team at EO Charging strives to educate others on the benefits of driving electric vehicles and in doing so has built a rapidly growing business. Over the past year, EO Charging has secured partnerships with EDF Energy, Octopus Electric Vehicles, Sainsbury’s Online, Uber and other large organisations. Cross-pollination within the organisation is strongly encouraged, ensuring expertise and ideas are shared with employees given full autonomy to fulfil their role and an entrepreneurial mindset is encouraged, regardless of level or paygrade.

Iceland FoodsThe Iceland Foods Doing it Right (Sustainability) Team has 1,000 employees - but only two have sustainability as their full-time job. Doing it Right has been the company’s mantra for almost 50 years, so when managing director Richard Walker took board responsibility for sustainability in 2017, he created a team that embedded sustainability in the heart of the business. The team formulated a plan that made Doing it Right key to all business decisions and gave new life to Iceland’s historic role as a corporate activist. Results include global attention for environmental issues, reputational enhancement and more engaged colleagues.

Marks & SpencerThe energy management team has overcome barriers to raise the importance of energy to the business, gaining senior leadership buy-in and financial and operational support to continue to deliver year-on-year an absolute reduction of 5% in electricity for the past three years. It has achieved a total energy efficiency increase of 40% to 34.4KWh per sq.ft compared with the 2006/07 baseline. Energy is now seen as one of M&S’s largest operational costs and one which can drive opportunity for the business.

Multiplex Construction EuropeThe sustainability team at Multiplex Construction Europe has delivered the management and delivery of its Positive Impact Strategy over the past year. Sustainability and environment are embedded throughout Multiplex’s activities with a team of 13 dedicated sustainability professionals based centrally and directly on projects, tasked with driving the sustainability strategy. In 2019, its Better Workspaces strategy has raised the standard of temporary facilities on construction sites including comfort, air quality, energy efficiency, noise levels, single use plastic elimination, nutrition, fitness, diversity and inclusion.

North West Cambridge DevelopmentEddington, the central neighbourhood in the North West Cambridge Development of city centre housing, has been earmarked as an exemplar of sustainability by the University of Cambridge. Measures throughout the project aimed to encourage residents and visitors to lead more sustainable lives such as water recycling, biodiversity in open spaces, a district heating scheme and sustainable travel through car-share, bus routes, and a dedicated pedestrian and cycling highway.

Thai UnionThe company’s global sustainability team contends with different policy environments in every region in which it operates, with seamless coordination and flexibility required to ensure delivery of its global sustainability strategy, SeaChange. Its extended sustainability team comprises expertise across a range of disciplines from fish purchasing in the Indian Ocean to implementing office improvements at its brands around the globe. Its multi-disciplinary, global team comprises dedicated specialists who develop and deliver an integrated plan of initiatives, spanning its four core programs; responsible sourcing, responsible operations, safe and legal labour, and people and communities.

Willmott DixonWillmott Dixon Group Sustainability (WDGS) is a team of experts united in “caring about tomorrow”. Part of Willmott Dixon Holdings, the 15-strong team with environmental and social sciences specialisms has enabled the business to achieve industry-leading performance in its own operations. This includes a 59% CO2 intensity reduction since 2010 and a 57% reduction in waste since 2012. It has driven innovations in building design, performance and supply chain carbon.

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Technological Innovation of the Year

Acclaro Advisory

The Sustainable Facilities Management Index is the UK’s only sustainability benchmark and roadmap for facilities management firms and currently assesses 20% of the UK’s £75bn outsourced FM market. The digital tool scores users against 23 ESG criteria using methodology approved by the likes of WWF, then helps them to embed best practice going forward. Users achieve an average 20% increase in their Index score by using its bespoke advice.

Connected Kerb

Connected Kerb’s smart cities infrastructure programme combines data at kerbside to enable charging and connectivity for electric and autonomous vehicles and support the application of advanced Internet of Things technologies. Each unit consists of a subterranean Node Box and above-ground charging points made from 80%+ recycled tyres, and is Wi-Fi and 5G-compatible, enabling air quality and road congestion sensors. Connected Kerb sold 1,500 of these units in 2019 and the firm believes they can be installed in any residential street or car park.

GridBeyond

At the heart of GridBeyond’s offering sits Point – its digital smart technology platform. The innovation uses machine learning and big data to ensure users can capitalise on their forays into flexibility, telling them when to charge or to discharge in order to realise maximum carbon and cost savings. It’s already being used by a range of businesses across the water, manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, retail, hospitality and technology sectors, with one client having uncovered an additional 66% energy flexibility and reduced its annual carbon footprint by 400 tonnes.

IES

IES claims that its intelligent Communities Lifecycle (ICL) is the world’s first tech suite that enables users to forecast the environmental performance of any built environment project using digital twinning. The ICL links physics-based simulations with the Internet of Things, sensor readings, machine learning and AI, providing decision-makers with the information they need to make their projects more resource and energy-efficient. It is available to all interested parties, and has delivered multi-million-pound savings for Glasgow’s Riverside Museum, Houston’s Capitol Tower and a university in Singapore.

Kaluza

Kaluza is cloud-based and uses AI and machine learning to optimise smart devices including EVs, heaters and energy storage devices by analysing consumer behaviours and real-time market signals. It is aimed at empowering business and domestic device users, as well as network operators, to partake in the transition to a more efficient and flexible energy future though an easy-to-use app. The developers claim that uptake of scale on a domestic basis alone could deliver £6.9bn of cost savings.

Lorax Compliance

Lorax’s bespoke, cloud-based software aims to help companies meet Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and Product Stewardship requirements. It imports product and sales details into a single database and translates this data to ensure that clients are meeting global waste management and reporting requirements in accordance with both national law and international guidance. To date, more than 500,000 tonnes of packaging has been handled through the software, with users recording high engagement rates and a desire to go even further.

Outram Research

Outram’s Real Time Fault Level Monitor helps network operators to maximise stability and security of supply as more renewable generation comes online and as energy demands change amid trends such as transport electrification. It provides users with real time fault level values in as little as 10 seconds, enabling improvement in safety and efficiency. Crucially, it helps network operators to maximise network city without investing in expensive reinforcement and upgrades, which, in themselves, are often resource-intense. Outram claims it is primed for global uptake.

Reconomy

The complexity of understanding their waste activities is overwhelming to many. To that end, Reconomy’s Zero Waste tool, which can be accessed through any internet-enabled device, converts user data on resources and waste into a singular, normalised output. It then aggregates metrics against recognised international standards, helping users plot a course to alignment with the Paris Agreement’s more ambitious 1.5C pathway. The tool uses methodologies already helping finance firms to assess the sustainability of their portfolios.

Renewable Exchange

This innovation is digitising and modernising the ways in which participants in the renewable power purchase agreement (PPA) work with each other. It automates the tendering process between generators and suppliers, saving both parties time and resources, while minimising room for error. In less than 12 months, 1GW of capacity was tendered through the platform. Generators experienced increased visibility of power markets, enabling them to save operational costs and secure higher bids, while suppliers found it quicker and easier to connect with relevant projects.

Syzygy Consulting

EVlab combines data from more than 300,000 datapoints and 10 different sources to analyse local EV markets, helping real estate firms and local authorities to identify the best locations to install EV chargers. With the number of electric vehicles (EVs) in the UK now outnumbering charging points, the innovation aims to give these actors the information they need to make investments which will pay back not only now, but in future. EVlab has been used on more than 80 projects to date and experienced positive feedback from clients including Schroders, Nuveen Real Estate and RPMI Railpen.

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Transport/Fleet Management Initiative of the Year

DPD UKIn 2018, DPD UK became the first business in its sector to implement all-electric operations at delivery sites in Westminster and Shoreditch. The parcel delivery firm is now using 39 electric vehicles (EVs) at the two sites, and has cut CO2 emissions from 3.75 tonnes per month to zero. Following the success of this project, a further 55 EVs have been deployed at 16 depots nationwide, reducing CO2 emissions by 47 tonnes overall.

Responsible TravelIn Spring 2019, tourism firm Responsible Travel launched its manifesto on aviation and the climate crisis. It consists of a Green Flying Duty: an eco-tax on flights and ring-fenced money for R&D into lower carbon travel. It has been lobbying industry, media and government for change. On every holiday page, the company has included information about the carbon impact of holidays: including comparisons of transport options, a CO2 flight calculator and is now working to carbon label its holidays.

The Climate GroupThe Climate Group’s EV100 initiative has a goal of making EVs “the new normal” by 2030. It brings together nearly 60 global businesses publicly committing to shift their fleets to EV and/or install chargingpoints across their sites by 2030. At the time of the first EV100 Annual Report (2018), 23 businesses, operating in 66 markets had collectively committed more 145,000 vehicles, and already transitioned 10,000 vehicles to electric. Since then, its membership has more than doubled.

Ulker Biskuvi San. ve Tic. A.ŞLogistics is a very big part of Ulker‘s operations, which consists of 20 distribution centres and equates to 30 million kilometres travelled per year. With a target to reduce logistic operation emissions by 20% by 2024, the deployment of digitalisation schemes, root and pallet optimisation, and improving route efficiency, Ulker is on course for a 15% emissionsreduction by 2019, putting it well ahead of schedule for its logistics goal.

ZedifyZedify has revamped its delivery approach by offering brands, and therefore clients, what customers want – bespoke delivery times from active living wage employed staff, delivered by a zero-emission logistics service that leads to cleaner air and quiet deliveries that impact positively on their environment. Established in 2018, Zedify has doubled in size over the past 12 months, transferring more than 300,000 deliveries to zero-emission

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Waste and Resource Management Project of the Year

Aurelius Environmental

The lead-acid battery recycling industry is cited as being the world’s most polluting industry’. Aurelius Environmental’s technology revolutionises the recycling of these batteries: reducing the carbon footprint by 85%; reduce landfill (slag) by more than 90%; eliminate noxious gases, including sulphur dioxide, at no added cost; and saving energy - around 7,000 MWh per 10,000 tonnes throughput. Its objective is to deliver a holistic zero-waste platform for battery recyclers.

Azzurri Restaurants Ltd and with UKWSL

Casual dining firm Azzurri has boosted recycling levels to 82% and recovering of select materials to just under 18%, meaning that just 0.1% of the waste it generates is sent to landfill. The company partnered with UKWSL to engage 50 contractors to map existing disposal routes and agree to alternatives to ensure nothing goes to waste via landfill. A dedicated food waste project sees leftover food collected for redistribution via Fareshare, while audits have uncovered ways to improve collections of recyclable materials. Customers are also offered reusable items to avoid the use of single-use items.

Calik Denim

Calik Denim has developed a novel technique to recover and reuse indigo dye and cotton fibres from residual wastes of warp dyed yarns and old denim fabrics. The solvent from the washing process is recovered at high percentages, creating a strong performing closed-loop process. Calik Denim’s innovative approach means that undyed textile fibres can be recovered from dyed fibres and used for new production, a first for the sector. The company claims the recycling approach has generated “fruitful” economic returns.

Cranswick

Cranswick signed up to Champions 12.3 in 2018, committing to help halve global food loss and waste by 2030. In response, Cranswick has reduced food waste by 20%, representing more than 1,400 tonnes. This has largely been driven through internal engagement. All sites have undergone food loss and waste-mapping exercises and developed an action plan to eliminate avoidable food production waste. Each site has a team of Waste Warriors piloting new ideas and solutions using technology, behavioural change and strategic partnerships. Cranswick has also partnered with food distribution platforms to ensure surplus food goes to a good cause.

JPA Furniture

More than 90,000 redundant office furniture items are sent to landfill every week and JPA has proven that SMEs can make a difference to resource efficiency. JPA’s Project DODO has optimised an existing furniture fitting teams, warehouse and vehicle fleet to gain full control over the entire order process of furniture reuse. So far, JPA has diverted more than 24,300 items from landfill (510 tonnes) and re-homed more than 4,100 furniture items back into the local community.

Lands End Cottage

Lands End Cottage has become single-use plastic free at its picturesque, luxury location. The phasing-out of single-use plastics has been split into two areas; consumables within the cottage and cleaning and laundry products used. Locally produced bath bomb and melts and shower soaps have replaced plastic alternatives and sachets of coffee, sugar and hot chocolate are now in jars and milk comes from a local “milkbot” in reusable glass bottles. Lands End believes there is not another holiday cottage available which is completely free of single-use plastics.

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Leanpath UK

Leanpath’s data-focused approach to food waste has delivered change across the supply chain and improved internal engagement. A measurement-driven process has maximised supply chain impact by enabling culinarians to prevent the occurrence of food waste upfront. In addition, by inspiring kitchen staff to take control of their food waste, Leanpath has developed food waste reduction programmes including donation and composting. Since 2014, Leanpath has enabled culinary teams across 37 countries to prevent more than 19 million kilograms of food waste, eliminating 136,000tCO2e.

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Lloyds Banking Group

In 2019, Lloyds Banking Group announced new targets to reduce operational waste by 80% by 2025 and to eliminate 90% of single-use plastics in its catering & cleaning operations in 2019. The group has engaged with suppliers and launched a staff-focused “war on waste” to drive change. Progress to date has seen a reduction in overall operational waste of 4,600 tonnes in 2019 and more than 35 million fewer single-use catering items entering the waste stream each year. Best-practice advice on waste reduction has been made available to colleagues via an employee collaboration portal.

Marston’s in partnership with UKWSL

In 2016, Marston’s environmental performance saw recycling levels sitting a 60%, landfill at 40% and recovery at 0%. By 2019 and in partnership with UKWSL, this has improved to 78% for recycling, 22% for recovery and just 0.5% for landfill. Auditing and re-education programmes were delivered, alongside innovative bottle banks and cardboard balers and Marston’s is now the first of the big five UK pub chains to achieve “Zero Landfill” status. Martson’s and UKWSL can also prove some impressive returns on investments from the rollout of new waste cutting measurements.

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Water Management

The Coca-Cola Foundation working in partnership with WWF UKAs part of an aim to be “water-neutral” and source main agricultural ingredients sustainably, Coca-Cola has been working with WWF since 2012 to protect and enhance English rivers. To date, the organisations have engaged more than 2,500 farmers to deliver sustainable practices, resulting in over 3,600 acres of land being farmed more sustainably, with measurably improved soil and water quality. In total, 1.5 billion litres of water have been replenished back to the environment.

Kimberly-ClarkWhen Cape Town was suffering from severe water scarcity in 2018, Kimberly-Clark deployed a science-based water management tool to mitigate risks related to quantity, quality, and ageing infrastructure in the area. The company reduced water in its facility by 56% and used its approach to engage government and local leaders to analyse community-based solutions to water risks.

NHS HighlandCaithness General is aiming to become the only hospital on the planet to be awarded Alliance of Water Stewardship (AWS) standard for work to reduce the impact of pharmaceuticals on waterways. The hospital has been working with the Green Breakthrough Partnership through NHS Highland to carry out in-depth analysis of water quality across the value chain, and will aim to share the process with other healthcare sites across the region.

Turkish Petroleum Refineries CorporationThe Izmir Refinery New Water Treatment Plant is a large-scale investment, launchedin a bid to create a refinery with one of the lowest water footprints in Europe. The plant treats and reuses different wastewater sources as the primary water supply for the Izmir refinery, where water quality and supply play a crucial role in safety, operational reliability and profitability. The plant has enhanced the protection of natural resources and eliminated municipality wastewater discharge to sea.

Ulker Biskuvi San. ve Tic. A.Ş.With water being a key resource for agricultural firms, Ulker Biskuvi created a revamped water management approach as part of a broader 2024 sustainability strategy. Daily monitoring of water consumption allowed for the detection and remedy of leaks at all points of production, while reverse osmosis systems were introduced to enable reuse. As a result, water consumption has decreased by 32% and water intensity by 30%. The organisation has reached its water targets six years early, with 107,000m3 of water saved in 2018.

WİSER WASH KONFEKSİYON TEKSTİL DIŞ TİCARET ANONİM ŞİRKETİWiser Wash has created a patented approach to denim decolourisation that has drastically saved on water use and reduced harmful chemical use to zero, without impacting on the look or design of the product. The patented approach relies on ozonation to replace corrosive and hazardous chemical use. As the approach doesn’t require rewashes, less than a cup of water is used in the process. Water use has been reduced by 40% on average and Wiser Wash has set up processes to share the technology.

WRAP, Rivers Trust, WWF and BITCWRAP’s Courtauld 2025 Water Ambition has catalysed more than 40 food and drink businesses, water companies and on-the-ground delivery organisations to act within their own operations to improve water efficiency. In partnership with WWF, the Rivers Trust and BITC, WRAP has created a five-step process to get business to voluntarily monitor, collaborate and progressively act to reduce water stress. To date, more than 500 suppliers have been engaged in water management across the globe.

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