Why Sustainability

The Cone Inc. 2007 Environmental Survey (www.coneinc.com) shows what consumers expect of themselves and from businesses that they patronize.  Consumers indicate that they are focusing on pro-environmental actions in three areas:

• Conserving Energy (93%)
• Conserving Water (86%)
• Recycling (89%)

As for business, consumers expect them to take the following steps to become more sustainable:

• Reducing pollution throughout office & manufacturing operations (71%)
• Designing products/packaging with more environmentally-friendly contents & minimal packaging (69%)
• Distributing & transporting goods more efficiently (69%)
• Communicate environmental efforts to employees and customers, so they can support those efforts (69%)
• Donating money to environmental causes (59%)
• Lobbying for more environmentally-friendly policies (57%)

Upstream is your single source business sustainability partner and drives this process, so you can focus on your core business.

Upstream provides sustainability metrics and indices:

• Single source program tracking & reporting via proprietary streamline program
• Commodity recycling & reuse
• Waste reduction goal setting
• Energy & water use benchmarking & reduction
• Overall program cost savings
• Best practices & continuous improvement
• Carbon foot print reduction & natural resource savings formulas
• Data capture & reporting