Companies around the world looking to lower their environmental impact and carbon footprint are turning to sustainability initiatives such as Zero Waste to significantly improve their environmental stewardship, corporate responsibility profile, and ESG rankings.
To help you communicate how you reduce, recycle and re-use your waste, the SCS Zero Waste Standard provides a basis for certification for waste diversion and reduction at your individual facilities. Certification provides a 3rd party assurance that waste elements are reused, prevented or diverted from the landfill.
Certification can be used to communicate your company’s journey towards eliminating landfill-bound waste generation at your facilities. The annual zero waste assessment captures the amount of waste diverted from landfill as a percentage of total waste generated.
Under the SCS Zero Waste standard, all corporate facilities will be evaluated, and a sample will be audited onsite. Facilities demonstrating at least 50% waste diversion can be recognized under this SCS standard. All claims are based on a twelve-month period.