Sustainability Roadmap
Measurable targets guide us into our more sustainable future. The roadmap gives us concrete goals to support growth of our people and partners, but do our business in balance with nature.
About the roadmap
Our sustainability roadmap consists of three focus areas, taking the environmental, social, and business aspects of sustainability into account
- Make the world greener and healthier through our products and services
- Do our business in balance with nature
- Support the growth of our people and partners
Collaboration is the key
We create growing media solutions to enable sustainable development. The only way to decrease our net impact is through collaboration with customers and partners in the value chain. In sustainability, there are no competitors, there are only partners with whom you can grow together for a better tomorrow.
We’re working with more than 50 collaborators throughout the value chain of growing to build joint knowledge and encourage ecosystem thinking. Our innovations contribute to sustainable solutions for food production, gardening and landscaping.
Already a net positive company
Our roadmap guides us in being a net positive company, a company that contributes more to the world than it takes from it. The best way for us to do so is by providing safe, socially responsible, environmentally friendly and effective growing solutions.
Based on a scientific validation by The Upright Project we create more than four times the societal value an average company creates for each euro of revenue.
Life-cycle Assessment
We use a Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) to evaluate the environmental impact of the raw materials we use while optimising growing performance. Our R&D department is collaborating with knowledge institutions, suppliers and customers to find new materials that can be used for growing media. All of these materials have their own specific properties from a performance and sustainability aspect.
The LCA shows the environmental impact in several stages of the life-cycle: extraction, logistics, production, use and end-of-life. It can also provide insight into more than just one topic. It is possible to show how a certain product impacts resource scarcity, carbon footprint, water consumption, biodiversity, etc.