Measuring and Reducing Your Environmental Impacts

logo Now more than ever companies are being asked by their customers and, at times, by industry and governmental pressure how to identify, measure and reduce their own environmental impacts now and for the future. Before embarking on this process, companies often seek third-party advice and guidance from industry experts. NSF International is working in partnership with environmental measurement expert Trucost Plc, based in the UK, to meet our customers' needs worldwide. Our goal is to help companies achieve their environmental objectives.

Trucost provides the most efficient approach to measuring and reducing your environmental impacts, across your own operations and supply chain, using business information that you routinely collect.

Its approach is based on a combination of our data – the largest and most comprehensive database of corporate environmental impacts – and our advanced environmental profiling model.

With Trucost you can:

Measure your environmental footprint, from carbon and other greenhouse gases to water, waste, metals and chemicals, using business information that you routinely collect
Identify the most efficient strategies to reduce your footprint
Cut costs and increase efficiency
Meet your reporting requirements
Manage business risk from future regulation and natural resource availability
Benchmark your footprint against your peers and sector
Engage positively with your suppliers to support them in reducing their footprint
Demonstrate robust environmental credentials to customers, employees, investors and other stakeholders

Trucost provides the systems, support, data and expertise to ensure you achieve accurate footprint results quickly, cost effectively and with minimum disruption to your operations.

Identifying your most material impacts

With the world's most comprehensive data on corporate environmental impacts and advanced environmental profiling model, we can quickly identify your most material environmental impacts from carbon and other greenhouse gases to water, waste, metals and chemicals.

Building your footprint

We make the data collection as fast and straightforward as possible by offering three options:

Paper bills: where there is no history of data collection e.g. electricity bills for a carbon footprint
Spreadsheet: where you already have data expressed as either expenditure or quantity
The Trucost online data collection portal: to facilitate efficient data collection across multiple sites

Filling the gaps and verifying your data

Our database enables us to 'fill the gaps' and verify your source data, before standardizing it and calculating your footprint.

Reducing your footprint

Whether you want to reduce costs, improve efficiency, manage environmental risk or meet your regulatory requirements, we'll identify the most effective focus areas for your reduction programs

Developing a strategy

We'll provide cost-justified recommendations to improve your environmental performance and form the basis of your ongoing environmental strategy, on either a local or global basis.

Learn more about how Trucost can help your company measure and reduce environmental impacts.