Sandland Packaging, one of the UK’s leading cardboard packaging manufacturers, is delighted to have retained its Carbon Neutral certification for the 4th year in succession. This means that anyone purchasing their packaging products from Sandland Packaging do so with a ZERO carbon footprint.
Since embarking on a commitment to achieve Net Zero by 2040, 10 years ahead of the legal backstop of 2050, Sandland Packaging has introduced changes in processes, procurement and mindsets resulting in their operational control emissions (scope 1 & scope 2) only accounting for 7.86% of its total carbon footprint.
Whilst they continue to drive further reductions in their operational control emissions, the main focus for the next 5 years is to realise the same reduction in their non-operational control emissions, especially their supplychain (scope 3 category 1 – Purchased Goods & Services) which accounts for 87.32% of their total carbon footprint alone! Like most organisations, supply chain is the single largest contributor to their carbon footprint, so engagement, mobilisation and alignment will be the main focus to ensure they achieve their ambitious Net Zero target.
Dom Napier, Managing Director of TTBCG confirmed, “We are delighted to continue to support Sandland Packaging on their journey to Net Zero and look forward to mobilising their supply chain to join them on elevating sustainability and carbon emission reduction aligned to Sandland Packaging’s Net Zero target”. “Sandland Packaging is leading the sustainability crusade within their industry and has always measured all 15 categories of scope 3 in addition to scope 1 & scope 2, so the transition to ISO14068-1 should be relatively easy from a process point of view. The greatest challenge comes from mobilising their supply chain, ensuring it is aligned to their own Net Zero target, which is common practice in any Net Zero strategy.”
