Environmental Reporting and Corporate Social Responsibility

Environmental Reporting is the concept of brand owners and manufacturers taking environmental responsibility for their products and the associated packaging through their whole life cycle. This can involve activities such as:

• designing products for reuse or recyclability
• understanding the impact on the environment and taking this into account in the decision making process
• creating take back programmes
• arranging end of life collections that facilitate circularity or achieve recycling

A big part of Environmental Reporting also involves engaging and encouraging the public to take responsible action regarding your products.

The benefits to be gained from Environmental Reporting include:

• competitive advantage over others in your industry
• futureproofing, including mitigating some of the future costs of extended producer responsibility (EPR) and other legislation, or consumer demand to act
• strengthened customer loyalty
• generation of positive PR opportunities
• additional marketing tool which can be used, and is increasingly required, when bidding for tenders / new customers
• meeting UN sustainable development goals (SDGs)
• improved environmental credentials

We run support sessions to help our existing members, and other businesses, to scope out actions and interventions that will help them to achieve excellence in the area of Environmental Reporting. Some of the interventions that we have helped businesses to implement include:

• carbon footprinting
• life cycle assessment (and streamlined life cycle assessment)
• recyclability benchmarking
• horizon scanning to understand requirements and impacts of change within and outside of the UK
• packaging redesign
• supply chain engagement
• bespoke collection and recycling schemes

To register your interest, please email info@valpak.co.uk