Accelerating its sustainability journey through our Sustainability Strategy and Impact Assessment service
Bloc Blinds is an award-winning UK–based online retailer of made-to-measure blinds. They are passionate about designing and developing a series of unique blinds and accessories that easily integrate into your home. Based in the UK, the Bloc Blinds team of dedicated professionals create precision-cut, made-to-measure blinds quickly and efficiently for customers around the world.
Prior to partnering with Green Element, Bloc Blinds had already taken steps to improve its environmental impact. Bloc Blinds had started implementing an environmental management system process and put in place various sustainability initiatives. However, they wanted to gain a clearer understanding of their environmental impact.
Bloc Blinds partnered with Green Element to undergo a Sustainability Strategy and Impact Assessment; a bespoke service in which your data, processes, and circumstances are evaluated to produce recommendations and suggested next steps for your sustainability journey.
Through this service, Green Element helped Bloc Blinds to identify the best opportunities for improvement, plan the next steps of their sustainability journey, and engage staff at all levels in the process.
Increasing material and operational costs had an impact on Bloc Blind’s environmental journey. Having the resources available for ongoing improvements in sustainability was a challenge, but one Bloc Blinds wanted to address and overcome. For Bloc Blinds, receiving recommendations from Green Element as to how available resources might be most effectively targeted was important from both a business management and financial planning perspective.
Thank you to the Green Element team for the work and effort over the last few weeks. The presentations and reports have been excellent. It has been well received and has gotten a good buzz and motivation going.
Vinny Kennedy Quality Assurance Manager, Bloc BlindsSenior Manager Naomi Cohen worked with Environmental Consultants Alex Cronin and Madeleine Woods to guide Bloc Blinds through the Sustainability Strategy and Impact Assessment process.
First, a carbon footprint was prepared to report on emissions from Scopes 1 and 2, together with some Scope 3 categories, using the Compare Your Footprint ™ service. This allowed the Green Element team to identify emission hotspots.
The Green Element team was then able to gain a clearer understanding of the business through document and process reviews, surveys and interviews, and employee engagement activities.
As a result, tailored solutions and recommendations for Bloc Blinds were provided by our team, clearly identifying the appropriate next steps for their sustainability journey. The process and benefits of using a science-based targets approach for emissions reduction planning were also explained.
The outcomes of the Sustainability Strategy and Impact Assessment were discussed with the Bloc Blinds team and then shared in a comprehensive report, with the addition of survey and engagement activity resources and feedback for future reference.
The process generated energy and enthusiasm across the business and has helped Bloc Blinds to identify and prioritise the next steps to take. This includes further detailed work on its carbon footprint measurement, enabling Bloc Blinds to further understand its impact and establish a baseline for improvement. This will also help Bloc Blinds in establishing an emissions reduction strategy in preparation for setting Science-Based Targets.
At the 6-month follow-up session (included in the Assessment), Bloc Blinds reported that the process had also prompted plans and discussions in the following areas: