Zero Waste

Achieve Zero Waste Goals And Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

Can Your Business Transition to Zero Waste?

Zero Waste goes beyond diversion numbers and focuses on the upstream policies and practices related to an organization’s increased sustainability.

An Organization With Zero Waste Goals:

  • Is environmentally responsible and more resource-efficient
  • Turn’s waste into savings and additional income streams
  • Develops zero waste strategies, policies, and procedures
  • Provides education and training to their employees on how to become better stewards of the environment
  • Tracks zero waste data, including carbon footprint measurement
  • Offers transparent reporting for both internal and external stakeholders
  • Designs and creates products or services that aspire to do no harm and benefit all
  • Develops effective environmental communications strategies

Businesses want to make the changes necessary to combat climate change but need help identifying and implementing the key actions required to get closer to net zero.

Why Zero Waste?

Investors and other stakeholders want greater transparency on how organizations are managing their environmental risks and opportunities and integrating them into their business strategy.

With growing concern about the ethical status of organizations of all sizes, these standards are the central factors that measure the ethical impact and sustainability of investment in a company.

What Is Zero Waste?

Zero Waste goes beyond recycling by taking a ‘whole system’ ESG approach to the vast flow of resources and waste through an organization.

Environment

  • Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

  • Redesign

  • Hazardous Waste Prevention

  • Upstream Management

  • Closed-Loop System

Social

  • Employee Education and Training

  • Recycling Employee Incentives

  • End Producer Responsibility (EPR)

  • Impact on Local Communities

  • Waste Management Health and Safety

Governance

  • Leadership Training

  • Zero Waste Analysis

  • Zero Waste Reporting

  • Diversion Tracking

  • Carbon Emissions Measuring

Benefits of Zero Waste

Zero Waste Has Many Benefits For Businesses Of All Sizes

Grow Bottom Line

ScaleUp Sustainability

Reduce Carbon Emissions

Environmental Responsibility

Attract and Retain Talent

Build Trust With Stakeholders

Being Environmental Isn’t Easy And Businesses Need Help Implementing Zero Waste In A Simple, Cost-Effective Way

That’s Why We Created ScaleUP

We use our ScaleUP process that follows the key steps: Assess, make a Strategy, Implement, Measure, Report, and then Communicate the impact of your efforts—helping you achieve Zero Waste.

Here Are The Eight Steps Within The ScaleUP Process For Zero Waste

ASSESS

Step #1 Zero Waste Assessment
A Zero Waste Assessment is a way to help you set your Zero Waste priorities. Think of it as a tool to capture and visually represent the zero waste issues that matter most to you and your stakeholders. The Zero Waste Assessment results help set your strategic priorities and are the backbone of your reporting.

What’s Included:

  • Zero Waste Assessment – FREE
  • Stakeholder Engagement and Report
  • Zero Waste Matrix
  • Zero Waste Assessment Report
  • Zero Waste Recommendations

Why It Matters
A Zero Waste Assessment will help create clarity and focus by tying stakeholder expectations to your business and reporting strategy. From there, you’ll be better positioned to understand where you can make the most significant impact.

Step #2 Business Model Analysis
Once we know which zero waste topics to prioritize, we assess your company’s existing programs, policies, metrics, and engagements. Our Business Model Analysis scores your company on your current environmental initiatives, compares that score to your competitors, and identifies new zero waste opportunities that will grow your bottom line through a Zero Waste program.

What’s Included:

  • Current State Baseline Report
  • Gap Analysis
  • Competitors Analysis
  • Buyer Personas And Customer Segmentation
  • Employee Training Data
  • Brand Reputation Analysis
  • Risk Analysis Report

Why It Matters

The Business Model Analysis will show the correlation between your business and environmental performance. It will help strategize your zero waste initiatives and how to communicate your commitments and progress across your organization and stakeholders.

Step #3 Facility Assessments and Opportunities Evaluation
To set clear zero waste goals and track your ROI, we need visibility into your operational, waste and emission-related trends. We will determine “Hotspots,” which are the critical points that are easily identified and can be quickly rectified.

What’s Included:

  • Hotspots Analysis
  • Zero Waste Facility Assessment
  • Carbon Footprint Assessment
  • Product Life-Cycle Analysis
  • Climate Risk Analysis

Why It Matters

These hotspots can save over 50% in operational costs and are obtained after the first evaluation of the organization. They are kept active until the related zero waste goals are met.

STRAGETY

Step #4 Zero Waste Road Map
A Zero Waste program won’t hold up unless it has a road map that clearly outlines your organization’s vision and purpose to meet your zero waste priorities. We develop this road map and identify clear and measurable outcomes that define what success looks like for you.

What’s Included:

  • Zero Waste Vision Statement
  • Budget Setting
  • Accountability Plan
  • Zero Waste Team Creation
  • Strategic Zero Waste Roadmap
  • Goals and KPI Indicators
  • Zero Waste Policy Recommendations

Why It Matters

Your Zero Waste Road Map will translate ambitious, data-based targets into more detailed implementation plans through critical measures. Our centralized management data software creates your custom Zero Waste Road Map to track critical metrics and performance efficiently.

IMPLEMENT AND MEASURE

Step #5 Implementation and Measuring
To effectively implement and measure a Zero Waste program requires the integration of zero waste programming into business practices and processes and continual measurement. We set regular communication and updates for internal key stakeholders to continuously evaluate goals, update data, and compare best practices.

What’s Included:

  • Zero Waste Program Implementation
  • Employee Training Program
  • Employee Recognition Program
  • Weekly Team Meetings
  • Monthly Data Gathering and Updating
  • KPI Monitoring
  • Monthly Action Plans

Why It Matters

We stay apprised of adjustments needed to keep on track toward your zero waste goals by constantly monitoring your road map. We use AI technology to accurately upload, manage, and update your zero waste data and generate benchmark insights and visualizations within your dashboard.

REPORT

Step #6 Zero Waste Reporting

Zero Waste is more than recycling and diversion data: it’s about complete zero waste data tracking and sharing it with your stakeholders in a transparent manner. Zero Waste Reporting gives transparency and credibility to your environmental efforts and is guided by the global reporting standards and UN Sustainable Development Goals.

What’s Included:

  • Monthly Performance Trends on Zero Waste Metrics (Including Carbon-Related Emissions)
  • Zero Waste Data
  • Employee Data
  • Earth Day Reporting
  • Product Life-Cycle Data

Why It Matters

Our environmental reporting tools provide flexible, configurable reports and dashboards that can be shared throughout your organization. Our charts cover the most common metrics and track your carbon-related emissions utilizing automated calculations for intensity factors.

Step #7 ROI Monitoring
Over 55% of companies are not measuring the ROI of environmental initiatives, and 88% of environmental initiatives fail long-term. We believe that ROI needs to be fully understood. Zero Waste should not be different from any other business function where investment decisions are judged and tracked according to how they add value to the business.

What’s Included:

Operational ROI

  • Monthly Spend Analysis (Waste)
  • Productivity Data

Reputation ROI

  • Sales Revenue Strategy and Tracking
  • Stakeholder Survey-Based Measurement
  • Analysis of Views and Engagement from the Awareness Campaign
  • User-Generated Content Analysis
  • Customer Satisfaction Analysis

Talent ROI

  • Employee Retention Data
  • Employee Engagement Data
  • Employee Satisfaction Data

Why It Matters

With the correct data and tracking, we compile the contribution of your Zero Waste program relating to the overall business. This will provide a much more accurate measure of sustainability ROI and, in turn, will give you a more significant, sustained, and optimized investment leading to meaningful change.

COMMUNICATE

Step #8 Zero Waste Communications
Communications about your Zero Waste program must start with a data-driven understanding of the audience and stakeholders. We map out the motivations with content that resonates with internal and external audiences. Then we determine the right mix of communication channels and create content that will accelerate the delivery of your messages.

What’s Included:

  • Internal Zero Waste Communications Strategy
  • External Zero Waste Communications Strategy
  • Awareness Campaign for Social Media
  • Strategic Zero Waste Content Writing
  • Zero Waste Section Design on Your Website
  • Annual Corporate Zero Waste Report

Why It Matters

Communication about your Zero Waste program is a business strategy that creates a strong ROI if done effectively. It accelerates telling your environmental sustainability story in the language your stakeholders will connect with.

Transitioning to Zero Waste Attracts New Investors and Other Stakeholders By Bringing Credibility To Your Sustainably Efforts

We use the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting standards that enable comprehensive, credible, and effective reporting and communications.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Zero Waste integrates the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Global Reporting Initiative

Zero Waste follows the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) reporting standards

B Corp

Your Zero Waste program will fill all requirements for the B Corp Certification process

True Zero Waste Certification

Take your Zero Waste program to the next level by becoming TRUE Zero Waste certified

We Use Leading Technology

Our ESG platform follows global standards such as UN Sustainable Development Goals, GRI, SASB, and TCFD.

Our Technology Supports Companies Regardless Of Size, Industry, Or Sustainability Experience

Your ECOCAUSE Team Is With You Every Step Of The Way

The mission of your ECOCAUSE team is to use the ScaleUP process to help you create a responsible business that integrates zero waste and delivers value for people and the planet in a cost-effective way.

As your partner in Zero Waste, we will:

  • Identify and engage with your stakeholders to determine what zero waste values are essential for your business
  • Analyze operations and any current environmental programs and uncover potential cost efficiencies
  • Partner cross-functionally to identify and advise on Zero Waste optimization practices
  • Implement systems and procedures to track zero waste and related carbon emissions in alignment with emission reduction targets
  • Work with the appropriate internal leaders to seamlessly guide the day-to-day function of zero waste in support of corporate objectives
  • Develop internal zero waste training programs
  • Create customized zero waste reporting for internal and external stakeholders
  • Develop a Zero Waste communications content strategy that focuses on the environment and increasing sales

It’s Time To Do Things Differently

The world has changed. People want to be part of something worthwhile and get behind something they believe in.

It’s Not Enough To Turn A Profit. You Must Make A Difference.

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