Transforming products & business models for positive environmental and performance impacts
The impact of production on our planetary boundaries is driving a need for innovation and transformation at an unprecedented scale, creating both opportunities and obligations for organisations across the globe.
Organisations that prioritise sustainability not only contribute to a more resilient future; they also position themselves as market leaders and open themselves up to new value creation. The nexus of circular business models, sustainable products and packaging, and waste reduction is a transformative force, driving positive environmental change while fostering innovation and resilience within organisations.
At Anthesis, we guide organisations through this transformative journey, supporting them as they address their compliance needs and prioritise sustainability as a driver for business growth. We specialise in supporting organisations to meet their regulatory obligations and developing evidence-backed strategies and roadmaps that boost resilience.
Working with Industry Leaders
Sustainable Products and Circularity Services
Our team combines extensive industry knowledge with a forward-thinking approach, tailoring solutions to align with each organisation’s unique goals. We help companies transform the products they create and the business models they use to engage customers in order to drive better environmental and social impact, while expanding their market opportunity and business resilience.
We also help technology and infrastructure providers, governments, investors, and others to ensure that circular end-of-life solutions exist for products and packaging through effective resource recovery.
From designing eco-friendly products and implementing efficient waste reduction and reuse strategies to addressing toxic materials and transitioning towards a circular economy, we are dedicated to empowering your organisation to thrive sustainably.
Product Stewardship & Sustainability
Anthesis works with clients to understand and improve the sustainability of their products across the product lifecycle and across impact areas (carbon, plastic, toxicity, etc.), while maintaining or elevating product technical and business performance.
We help you embed sustainability principles, considering environmental and social stewardship, throughout your business. With expertise in product development, materials science, circular design and more, we bring subject matter expertise, efficient tools, and a comprehensive view to help improve products, your product development process, and your supply chain.
Circular Business Models
We help organisations to adopt circular principles, turning waste into resources and creating new revenue streams.
We specialise in transforming how businesses develop products to optimise circular design and innovative material use, and how they can unlock circular revenue models such as resale, subscription, or product as a service. We also drive the circular economy by helping businesses to become more resource efficient, and reduce waste throughout the value chain.
Lifecycle Assessments
As a global leader in delivering actionable LCA expertise, our services include strategy sessions to help businesses to determine what LCA can do for them, impact improvement workshops, LCA support, and Scope 3 and LCA integration.
Unique to our LCA services is a focus on how LCA results can be actioned to drive tangible sustainability improvements in line with client objectives, such as Net Zero targets. We have experience of all major LCA methodologies and software systems and support businesses with bespoke frameworks to fit their requirements.
Product Compliance
We guide organisations through the intricate landscape of environmental regulations, ensuring adherence and proactive compliance.
With expertise ranging from REACH, ROHS, and Right to Repair to Ecodesign for Sustainable Products (ESPR), Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) E5, our team specialises in product, packaging, and circularity-related environmental compliance including governance plans, data collection, compliance management, and reporting across the product lifecycle.
Product Certifications
By recognising the diversity of product certifications, we help clients to identify and secure the highest value certifications to meet their objectives. We also enable clients to establish and implement efficient, robust governance plans to pursue and maintain certification.
From assessing the sustainability claims of products to communicating credentials with stakeholders, we offer comprehensive services around implementing, upgrading and substantiating environmental product claims and certifications in a targeted, streamlined way.
Sustainable Chemistry & Materials
As experts in material selection, innovative technologies, and chemical regulation, we provide comprehensive chemical management and materials support throughout the supply chain.
From facilitating collaboration in REACH Consortia to aiding SMEs with complete chemicals and materials management outsourcing, we navigate regulatory complexities with a sustainability lens. Our services extend beyond compliance to incorporate green chemistry principles, foster innovation, and help clients to understand the impact of evolving environmental criteria on their businesses. We provide support in the decarbonization of materials and chemicals, establishing material circularity, analyzing the tradeoffs of using alternative chemicals and materials, and addressing both social and environmental impacts related to chemical and material use.
Packaging Sustainability Services
Our packaging engineers provide the technical expertise required to ensure that organisations implement meaningful baselines and packaging strategies, and more sustainable packaging design.
We combine our clients’ stewardship goals, voluntary commitments and regulatory obligations to create a packaging strategy that optimises their environmental and economic outcomes.
Plastic Sustainability Services
Our specialist polymer and plastics teams are trusted advisors to some of the most well-known global brands, retailers, investors and polymer producers, in addition to governments and industry associations.
Expertise and experience along the whole plastics value chain is supported by specialist knowledge from our Plastics Recycling Technology Hub, which enables us to put our clients on a strategic pathway to sustainability.
Waste & Resource Recovery
From operational and value chain waste analytics to market assessments, our services cover circular economy support, waste footprinting, and end-to-end assistance in waste reduction and diversion.
We provide expertise across waste data, metrics, and reporting and strategy, including roadmaps for resource efficiency with digital solutions.
Guide to Life Cycle Assessments
The growth of LCA coincides with a surge of legislation across the globe, designed to improve compliance, efficiency and management of products. Download our LCA guide to explore LCA as an invaluable tool for companies looking to achieve their sustainability goals.
ESPR Guide
The proposal for the new Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) has landed, meaning brands all over the world must grapple with the need to understand and then implement a raft of new requirements. Download our guide to learn more about the regulation and prepare your organisation.
CBAM Whitepaper
CBAM aims to ensure products imported into the EU are subject to the same carbon price as products produced within the EU, to prevent carbon leakage and drive industrial decarbonisation and carbon pricing policy globally. This whitepaper will guide you through the background and implementation of CBAM and what your organisation needs to do to prepare.
Anthesis has helped us realise our transformative vision of being the sustainability multiplier in the Life Sciences by enabling innovation in products and creating business models to drive impact and commercial success.
Jeffrey Whitford Vice President – Millipore Sigma
Anthesis conducted a bioenergy risk assessment that enabled us to gain a comprehensive understanding of the risks involved in our bioenergy supply chain. They provided us with an insightful analysis and valuable guidance on managing potential risks and we feel well-equipped to take this work forward.
Catherine Zimmerman, Vice President, Global Environment, Health, Safety & Sustainability, Ingredion
Collaborating with Anthesis has been essential in ensuring compliance with current regulations and preparing for future regulatory changes. Their expertise and meticulous approach enable us not only to adapt effectively to legal requirements but also to stay ahead of them, ensuring our products remain compliant and strengthening our capacity to meet new challenges.
QuadpackRead the Case Study
Data analytics will provide a solid foundation for setting goals and measuring progress towards chemical hazard reduction. The Fund will then build upon these to create a docket of programs and projects to activate systems change across supply chains, and catalyse a collaborative, multi-stakeholder movement for safer chemistry.
Bill Walsh, Director, Safer Chemistry Impact FundRead the Case Study
Anthesis’ experience with EU REACH and their understanding of the complexities of EU REACH consortia management has allowed us to make significant improvements in our operations.
It’s been a fantastic project to be part of, and a real pleasure to work with you. Safe to say we would not be in the position we are today without Anthesis.
Danny Hobson, Head of Product and Supplier SustainabilityRead the Case Study
We were very pleased with our experience working with Anthesis throughout the diligence process. From start to finish, Anthesis provided critical market expertise and exceptional work product that equipped us with the market knowledge, tools and support for the transaction.
Tyler Kopp – Principal, ECPRead the Case Study
We’re always trying to make our facility as efficient as possible and eliminate waste. We have continuous targets for our team that we try to beat week after week. We were tracking waste before this work with Anthesis, but it wasn’t as detailed. This work allowed us to rethink our priorities and refocus our energy.
James Oliphant – Operations Lead, Righteous GelatoRead the Case Study
Anthesis was an invaluable partner in data gathering, analysis, and facilitating discussions among various stakeholders. The study showed their in-depth understanding of the requirements for an efficient plastics recycling system.
Umesh Madhavan – Research Director, The Circulate InitiativeRead the Case Study
Tesco Exchange provides the platform for our suppliers to match their excess stock or waste with other suppliers’ resource demands, ultimately saving cost and reducing waste in our supply chain. Building upon the success of the Livestock Marketplace on the Tesco Supplier Network with our trusted partner Anthesis, Tesco Exchange connects suppliers and unlocks opportunities for us to work towards our shared targets of net zero by 2050, and halving global food waste by 2025.
Andrew McGregor – Sustainability Programme Manager, TescoRead the Case Study
Being part of the ECAP project has increased our understanding of our fibre footprint, and helped us set clear goals and start tracking against them. We have a much clearer picture about what we need to do to convert unsustainable materials into better options.
Åsa Andersson – Sustainability and Quality Manager, Peak Performance.Read the Case Study
This announcement is a huge win for consumer transparency and we’re thrilled that Target is taking this step. It’s a forward-thinking policy like this that will drive industry change, ensuring that the health of our planet and its people are never compromised for profit.
John Replogle – CEO, Seventh GenerationRead the Case Study
Anthesis brought an incredible depth of understanding of the complexities of recycling systems to tackle a nuanced subject, highlighting their decades of industry experience and rigorous analytical skills. They were a reliable partner and helped shed light on important details of molecular recycling technologies, enabling us to better assess where these technologies fit in a circular economy.
Kate Daly – Managing Director of the Center for the Circular Economy, Closed Loop PartnersRead the Case Study
With this project, we hope to spotlight viable alternatives to linear stretch wrap and promote continued exploration and development of circular solutions to drive adoption across industries globally. Ultimately, we want uptake of circular models to occur at a scale that will significantly reduce the amount of plastic packaging that ends up in landfills, incinerators, and the environment.
Alessandra Pistoia – Senior Program Manager, Zero Waste and Circularity, Microsoft CorporationRead the Case Study
Anthesis has played an integral role in supporting ReSource: Plastic’s goal of streamlining critical data for addressing the plastic pollution crisis by helping connect the dots on waste for an unprecedented and transparent view into the global plastic system.
Alix Grabowski – Deputy Director Plastic & Material Science at World Wildlife FundRead the Case Study
Our best in class new tool enables us to make decisions quickly before product designs are locked in so we have confidence we’re going in the right direction. We’re spending much less time measuring and more time driving change.
Jennifer Duran – Global Head of Sustainable Innovation, ReckittRead the Case Study
The Anthesis team were a real pleasure to work with. The team had direct experience in the textile market and were quick to accurately evaluate a wide range of topics from supply feedstock through to end-product production and technology; using their own internal network contacts. Due diligence conducted with customers was handled with sensitivity and information collected from customers was helpful to both investors and the company. I would gladly recommend this team.
We valued Anthesis’ expertise and knowledge in chemical management which enabled us to establish appropriate criteria for clean beauty and propel us forward on our H Project Approved responsible buy icon program.
Holt RenfrewRead the Case Study
The saying ‘if you can’t measure it you can’t manage it’ is as true as ever when it comes to combating CO2 emissions. It’s FIRA’s aim to make carbon accounting as easy as possible so that others can concentrate on reducing their footprint. No more spreadsheets or struggling to find conversion factors, the Furniture FootprinterTM tool provides a full web-based solution backed up by the experience of Europe’s leading footprint specialists.
Bruce Lovell – Consultant, FIRARead the Case Study
As much as people want to believe that you can be a sustainable company without completing the conservation assessments in your supply chain, that’s not true. We were measuring losses, but without having done these quantitative assessments, we never would have gone as deep as we did. It changed the way we see and talk about ‘waste’. And thanks to our implementation of the work, sustainability in 2023 is a pillar for our company. It’s a license to operate – it’s not a nice to have, it’s a must have.
Deborah Wolman – VP of Sustainability & Revenue Management Nature’s Touch Frozen FoodsRead the Case Study
Anthesis developed a custom tool that enables us to efficiently collect material content and sustainability data from our supply chain and integrate it with our product bill of materials. We now can systematically digest and report on regulatory compliance and sustainability data.
Sarah Scott – Compliance Engineer, MicrosoftRead the Case Study
These powerful insights highlight the scale of action needed to make packaging systems more sustainable. We are continuing to mobilise industry around the three key levers for change, focussing on removal and impact reduction. Ultimately this has been a real eye-opener for industry and despite the current challenges, strategies are being reviewed.
Amanda Curtis – Sustainability Specialist, IGDRead the Case Study
Supporting our mission of making sustainability happen, Anthesis is proud to work with Amazon on its Climate Pledge Friendly programme, verifying that the external sustainability certifications and standards provide a demonstrable reduction in environmental impact. This programme empowers consumers to make informed choices on their purchasing decisions, with the assurance that products with the Climate Pledge Friendly badge have a genuine claim to be more sustainable.
Chris Stanley – Director, Anthesis GroupRead the Case Study
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