Whether it’s protecting the planet for future generations, shaping a fairer society for them to flourish in, or standing up for the rights of parents today, tomorrow and beyond, our Brighter Futures platform sets our intentions as a business and brand that people can trust and believe in.
The United Nations has set out a 2030 agenda for global sustainable development. It has identified 17 goals covering a variety of areas of focus, from Poverty to Inequality and Economic Growth to Clean Energy.
As a business we have aligned to four of these goals and set out our commitments.
The human impact of the today and generations past has caused great damage to the world. But the power of reversing it lies within people, too.
We’re committed to ensuring our world is as healthy and thriving as the babies who will grow up in it, so we’re setting out a plan to reduce the impact we have on the planet.
We’ve made it a priority to ensure we will be using 100% renewable energy across all our sites, and to be a Zero-to-Landfill business by 2030.
We will aim to reduce our global energy usage year on year, install energy efficient equipment and machinery, and eliminate the use of harmful chemicals across all our manufacturing processes.
We’ve already made a start as our UK sites are zero-to-landfill and our UK manufacturing facility has a 100% renewable energy supply. We are on our way to continuing to reduce our planetary impact by investing in a global renewable energy infrastructure.
We’ve installed LED lighting at our UK and Morocco based factories and the next eight years will see us cut our global electricity usage.
Our Australia (Melbourne) office also has a renewable energy supply.
As we aim to reduce our waste and implement a zero-waste strategy by 2025, we’re ramping up our recycling, reuse and reprocessing activities, ensuring every element of our business is zero to landfill by our 2030 goal.
To protect the climate of tomorrow, we need to act today so babies of the future will have a safe world to grow up in.
We’re committed to looking after the wellbeing of babies, but in order to do this, we need to ensure that the climate they will grow up in brings them health instead of harm.
We’ve made it a priority to be a Net Zero carbon business by 2030 (excluding Scope 3 freight emissions)* and limit climate damage, aiming to reduce our global carbon footprint, so our babies can grow up in a world that’s as beautiful as they are.
*As the global freight industry is still in the vary early days of developing low carbon or carbon neutral shipping, we have set a 2045 target for Scope 3 freight emissions but all other emission types fall into our 2030 target.
We’ve already made a start in reducing our global impact by eliminating 3827 tonnes of emissions from our global footprint in 2020.
We'll continue to do this across our business as we introduce further initiatives.
We'll continue to reduce our product carbon footprints as we evolve our product ranges.
Our Twist and Click nappy bin has a certified product footprint reduction of 53% (reducing annual emissions by around 989 tonnes).
We've significantly reduced our global travel with only essential flights now allowed and all the associated emissions offset.
The life of our rivers, seas and oceans is rapidly declining as a result of the impact of humans and pollution on the planet.
We’re committed to cleaning up the world’s waters so our babies can enjoy them. Just like we did.
We’ve made it a priority to clean up the world’s waters by removing single-use (throw away) and difficult to recycle (problem) plastics from everything we do.
We've already started to cut back our plastic usage by removing 414 tonnes of single-use plastic from our packaging over the last two years.
We are on target to remove single-use plastics from all our packaging by the end of 2022.
We’ve removed 6.8 tonnes of single-use plastics internally across our sites and our Melbourne office is now a single-use plastics free site.
We are aiming towards eliminating all single use plastics from all of our products by 2025.
By continuously collaborating with our partners and suppliers we’ll also work to remove single use plastics from our supply chain so we can limit the impact we have on the world’s waters at every stage of our production process.
We have also launched our new supplier code of conduct, outlining our environmental sustainability expectations.
Every living thing is integral to the survival of our planet, so we need to look after every plant, animal and mineral with the same care and attention we give to our babies.
We’re committed to protecting and preserving the natural resources our babies can’t live without.
We’ve made it a priority to ensure that all materials across our business and beyond are sourced and used sustainably by 2030 so we can help give every life on earth what it needs to thrive.
We’ve already made a start in launching new product lines made using innovative methods and sustainable materials, such as our twist and click nappy disposal system which is made using recycled materials and sustainably sourced sugarcane GREENFILM™.
As we increase our use of sustainable materials in products and packaging, we’ll be reducing our use of fossil fuel resources whilst ensuring the packaging they come in is sustainably sourced and 100% recyclable.
Following an ecology study our UK manufacturing facility has been established as a wildlife friendly site, with the planting of wildflowers to attract bees and butterflies and the installation of a natural wildlife pond and bird boxes to improve biodiversity.
Have any questions about sustainability or think you can help us on our journey, then please get in touch.
Email us at sustainability@mayborngroup.com