Through understanding the journey to sustainability and the vision of “One World – Planet and People”, SCA supports a design for life vision.
It fits with our mantra – ‘care of life’ – c/o life.
This means thinking whole life, from when materials are grown, manufactured, distributed, retailed, used and recycled. This is the lifecyle, or supply chain approach.
We need to think whole life for two reasons:
• To understand the “hotspots” of sustainability impact. A knowledge of hotspots enables us to make sure we focus on where we need to. This holistic approach is vital to make products more sustainable – for example packaging represents such 10% of the carbon impacts of what we buy
• To make sure that we do not do something that impacts something or somewhere else – an example of this might be growing crops for biofuels – good for renewable energy, but not if that land is better used for growing food
The illustration below highlights how we can integrate a collective approach to products, and how each part of the supply chain plays a vital role in understanding and impacting sustainability.
SCA Product Lifecycle – Design for life
- Raw Material Production - FSC Certified, use of recovered fibres and biodiversity programmes
- Manufacture Processing - Design for lifetime, low energy & resource use and zero waste
- Logistics/Distribution - Route efficiency, backhauling & fronthauling and right weighting packaging
- Retail - Low carbon stores, recycling and retail-ready packaging
- Use by consumers - Energy and water awareness, dosage & portion management and low energy and low water appliances
- Recycling and disposal - Design for recyclability, collection infrastructure and feedback on progress
Contact: Business Development
Email: Info.recycling.uk@sca.com
