About Service
Consumers and businesses are increasingly aware of environmental and ethical issues. They are concerned about climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, fuel prices, labour rights and the impact that products may have on the environment. In response to this, organisations are focussing more on both upstream and downstream sustainability issues. This means understanding and mitigating environmental and ethical issues within the supply chain and also the after sale through life and disposal implications.
Ensuring your products and services are environmentally and ethically sound begins with the design process and continues into sourcing and manufacture.
This requires businesses to take ownership of their product or service, even after they have sold it. Which is an attractive proposition for potential customers.
What we offer
Cala Sustain will help you transform your supply chain from the top-down. We provide a platform to map out all your suppliers, allowing for advanced reporting and collaboration. Once this is embedded within your business, we can provide specialist solutions to enhance the design and packaging of your products so that they are sustainable even after they have been sold.
Who the Service is for
The service is for both public sector and private companies with global supply chains. Particularly organisations with supply chains that include areas where minerals and raw materials can be produced more ethically and sustainably.
This service is crucial for consumer facing businesses, where the ethical and environmental expectations of consumers are increasing. Improving the environmental and ethical performance of products and services and communicating this effectively will reduce the risk of greenwashing.
Benefits of Environmental & Ethical performance of products
- Improve your existing products and generate new ideas for product innovation
- Streamline your entire value chain, by reducing costs, creating efficiencies and also identifying and reducing risks
- Ability to monitor your sustainability performance while moving towards a more circular economy
- Build trust and loyalty with customers and other stakeholders
- Attract new consumers and employees who care about their global impact
- Create less waste in a world with finite resources
- Build climate resilience
How it works
Cala Sustains’ experienced team can help you to develop a strategy which includes sustainable design practices. We will create a bespoke plan, including:
- Mapping how resources move through your business
- Identifying resource hotspots such as raw materials with supply risks
- Assessing and developing areas for improvement
- Examining existing supply chains
- Helping your organisation pivot towards more environmentally friendly products and product ranges (eco-friendly ranges)
- Tie into marketing and buying departments. Enabling an effective exchange of information and helping teams to understand the benefits of this route
- Assist external communications to convey to customers and stakeholders new sustainability practices. Ensuring your communications accurately convey the credentials of your product or service. Giving you the maximum benefit