Circular Business Models, Sustainable Products, Packaging, and Waste.
Transforming production & consumption with real-world expertise to deliver a resilient circular economy, and a healthy, sustainable future for all.
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.
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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.
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Sustainable Products and Circularity Services
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 your products, product development process, and 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 to reduce waste throughout the value chain.
Life Cycle Assessments
As a global leader in delivering actionable LCA expertise, our services include strategy sessions to help businesses 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.
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) and 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.
Our 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.
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.
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 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
Contact us and discover how we can support you to achieve your sustainability ambitions.
