Tork Focus4 Sustainability Helps Customers Meet Their Goals

New from Essity is a programme that promotes transparency and helps customers meet their goals with the aid of accessible and reliable sustainability information

Tork Focus4 Sustainability provides customers with a comprehensive and easy-to-understand summary of the key sustainability benefits of select Tork systems.

“As sustainability legislation evolves and expectations increase, businesses need a clear view of sustainability product claims and benefits to understand their impact on people and the planet,” said Essity’s Lydia Brant.

“However, decoding sustainability claims can be challenging. By sharing the benefits that matter to customers in a consistent way, Tork aims to educate and empower customers to make informed decisions for their businesses and support their own sustainability goals.”

Environmental Ethos

Tork’s sustainability ethos is focused on four areas: materials and packaging; use and waste; carbon, and hygiene for all. The company uses a lifecycle approach and considers the key sustainability needs of customers in line with the EU Green Deal priorities.

Tork Focus4 Sustainability materials include resources that:

Offer an overview of comparable sustainability benefits for each of the Tork brand’s focus areas: materials and packaging, use and waste, carbon, and hygiene for all

Share a Tork European average for carbon-in-use for napkins, toilet paper and hand towels

Feature a product information tool that makes tender completion easier

Improve sustainability knowledge with free access to interactive training modules

Tork is part of Essity, ranked as one of the world’s 100 most sustainable companies, in the Corporate Knights Global listing. The company’s sustainability initiatives include Tork PaperCircle, the world’s first recycling service for paper hand towels which helps businesses reduce waste.

Eliminating Waste

Many Tork products feature reduced packaging or eliminate cardboard cores to cut waste and material use. Some lines are compressed to save transport space leading to reduced carbon emissions. And innovative one-at-a-time dispensing helps users to consume fewer paper products.

Tork also offers a range of carbon-neutral certified dispensers produced with certified renewable electricity and compensated with climate projects by ClimatePartner2. Many Tork solutions are also EU Ecolabel certified – acknowledging reduced environmental impact across the product life cycle – and FSC® labelled, noting they are made from responsibly sourced fibre.

Essity received two accolades for its sustainable ethos this autumn. The company was named winner of this year’s British Institute of Cleaning Science (BICSc) Environmental ESJ award and also received the Circular and Recycling Award – Product Recycling in the National Sustainability Awards in conjunction with waste partner Recorra.

This is a sponsored article, brought to you by TORK.

To learn more about Focus4 Sustainability and how Tork sustainable hygiene solutions can improve your facilities, please visit: www.tork.co.uk/sustainability