Overview

Ecoveritas operates a highly experienced team in compliance, sustainability and technology development.

Our mission is to make it easy for companies to understand their obligations, get compliant and to respond appropriately through reduction, substitution and recycling.

At Ecoveritas, we love numbers. But maybe not for the reason you would think. Many of our team’s backgrounds before venturing into environmental data collection and analysis range from the studies of classical languages, geography, physics, biology, radiation protection, economics, teaching, retail and foster caring.

We are happy to have a whole analytics and data team ready to make sense of that vast amount of data available. They allow us as a business and our customers to be clear-sighted and take the right packaging decisions based on facts instead of reaching conclusions based on preconceived ideas or subjective “gut feelings”.

Sustainable packaging starts with accurate data

Established in 1999, Ecoveritas has a proud history of supporting brands, retailers and their supply chains with a wide range of environmental compliance data, sustainability consulting and packaging optimisation services.

Irvin Newbitt CEO

With over 25 years of engineering, IT, and senior management experience, Irvin Newbitt is CEO of Ecoveritas. Throughout his career, Irvin has been accountable for delivering large-scale Engineering, IT, and business change programmes, from plant construction and business restructuring to mergers & acquisitions.

Andrew McCaffery Chief Strategy Officer

Andrew is Chief Strategy Officer at Ecoveritas and has a career spanning more than 30 years within the environmental sector. Andrew is responsible for overseeing Ecoveritas’ transition to the new EPR and DRS systems being proposed by the UK and Scottish Governments.

Richard Savery Chief Technology Officer

With over 25 years of IT experience , Richard is the Ecoveritas Chief Technology Officer. Richard has built software development teams and designed enterprise grade platforms for Banks, Building Societies, Regulators, Manufacturers, Utility Companies and Legal Firms

Kathy Illingworth Head of Sustainability Consulting and Policy

Kathy has worked in packaging compliance and sustainability for 20 years, with experience in all aspects of global EPR. She is proficient in Life Cycle Analysis and carbon footprint modelling, putting these skills to good use during consultancy projects.

Josh Remi Commercial Manager

With more than 15 years of experience in the environment and packaging sectors as a consultant and commercial lead on EPR and recyclability projects. Josh has worked with leading FMCG brands and retailers, where he has demonstrated strong knowledge of the global EPR industry.

Sandy Dhesi Commercial Manager

Sandy has over 20 years of experience in global EPR legislation, data management and consultancy. She has previously built up a data collection service for one of UK’s largest compliance schemes, successfully supporting businesses manage their obligations relating to producer responsibility.

Helen Hodgson Data Product Manager

Helen is Data Product Manager at Ecoveritas with 15 years' experience working with packaging data within the environmental sector. Helen works with our developers to provide systems and tools to manage, report and visualise data for Ecoveritas and our customers.

Mandy Davies-Harries Business Architect

Having worked in the packaging compliance sector for 12 years, Mandy works with the development team to ensure our systems meet our business needs and our clients' data requirements.

Rebecca Webber EPR Operations Manager

Rebecca is responsible for a larger team within our operations division. Her extensive experience in client service and delivery are fundamental in driving an effective and positive environment at Ecoveritas.

Jessica Draisey Data Analyst

A recent graduate of Oxford Brookes University, Jessica joined Ecoveritas with a keen interest in sustainability. As a Data Analyst, her work has included calculating packaging waste obligations and supporting clients with EPR.

Kirusigan Pirakaran Data Analyst

Kirusigan supports and liaises with clients on projects and keeps up-to-date with the latest regulations and legislation to ensure we understand the impact on our clients.

Ecoveritas

Ecoveritas Carbon Footprint 2022

Ecoveritas reports its GHG emissions in accordance with the International Greenhouse Gas Protocol – a Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard. The data used to evaluate the impact of Ecoveritas activities is collected in an environmental inventory that is updated annually to reflect changes in staff numbers, office space, and internal activities. Maintaining and assessing this information is crucial to identifying and planning relevant measures in line with Ecoveritas’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) priorities. In addition to the mandatory Scope 1 (direct) and Scope 2 (indirect) emissions, we also report on the significant Scope 3 emissions from our operations. These emissions include business travel, commuting and waste.

Work-from-home policies were imposed by COVID-19, and today business operations are running at levels akin to those from before the epidemic. As a result, business travel and commuting to work has increased and our overall footprint has risen. Additionally, some homeworking continues and thus in addition to accounting for all our operations, we continue to include emissions from homeworkers in our calculations.[1]

As we are a growing business, full-time staff numbers have risen by 6% in 2022 compared to 2021, this has added some emissions to our total footprint. Due to significantly altered operations brought on by the pandemic, particularly those resulting from commutes and work trips, the emissions were lower in the preceding two years. But as things get going and our business expands, our footprint has slightly increased. The overall footprint in 2022 has therefore increased by 48% to 7.64 tonnes CO2e, and on a per-employee basis by 30%, to around 450kg CO2e generated per FTE.

[1] We followed the methodology to estimate homeworking emissions using the Homeworking Emissions Whitepaper 2020. We also assumed that 75% of employees are working from home. We also decided to use the natural gas conversion factor to estimate the homeworking footprint from heating and use the electricity factor to estimate the home office equipment emissions.

At Ecoveritas, we plan to continue doing a significant amount of work from home, but we will also need to travel more to meetings and to the office. Despite this, the team is committed to minimising its environmental impact by limiting business travel, walking, bicycling, or taking public transportation to work, as well as through a robust recycling programme.

Our company is expanding, therefore soon our emissions will rise even more. As a responsible firm, we are committed to minimising our environmental impact and are investigating various strategies to do so as we advance.