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Design for sustainability

Reinventing design and manufacturing for sustainability

Amidst the challenges of climate change, resource scarcity, ever-evolving regulations, and mounting stakeholder expectations, we see a unique business growth opportunity in sustainability. There’s a once-in-lifetime chance to pioneer commercial, technical, and creative innovation, reshaping everything from products and packaging to services.

We believe that success lies in fostering end-to-end innovation, through uniting deep sustainability knowledge, creativity, and world-class expertise in science, engineering, and design. This powerful combination enables us to rapidly turn sustainable ideas into tangible reality.

Featured insight

Would you like sustainability with that?

The future of reusable packaging in quick service restaurants.

Design for Sustainability

How Things Work: Design for sustainability

See how to Design for sustainability in our How Things Work video from our Global Innovation and Technology Centre.

Design for Sustainability

Waste: The commodity of the future

To maximise value from waste and move towards circularity, organisations can focus on three core pillars: reduce, recycle, and repurpose.

In this study, we explore how sustainability mindset can accelerate innovation — helping brands resonate more deeply with customers and build lasting collaborations with meaningful partners.

A practical guide to help business leaders identify circular opportunities and design business models that create, deliver and capture value in ways that also benefit society and the environment.

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Developing strategic foundations and front-end innovation

Helping you to create impactful strategies that are underpinned by research and regulatory compliance to accelerate innovative, sustainable and exciting solutions.

Creating next-generation sustainable product and packaging systems

Accelerating end-to-end product and packaging system development, including footprint and lifecycle assessment, leveraging the very latest in sustainable engineering, manufacturing, and materials science.

Making design for sustainability pervasive in your organisation

Equipping you with the tools, methods, capabilities, processes, and training to make design for sustainability commonplace throughout your organisation.

Designing and developing green technologies

We design and develop technologies from direct air capture, hydrogen systems, and Agri-Tech to novel technologies to create more value from waste. Our portfolio of technology work expands across global sustainability challenges.

Selected work

We’re privileged to work with leading global brands to create breakthrough sustainability innovation platforms that deliver impact and value from insight to implementation.

COVID-19 rapid diagnostic test packaging

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Eliminating plastic waste on a global scale

COVID-19 rapid diagnostic test packaging

ENSO Tyres

Re-imagining the future of tyres in the circular economy

Cumulus EEG Headset

Cumulus EEG Headset

Revolutionising clinical trials for brain disorders

Cumulus EEG Headset

Green Boom

Building a robust sales strategy for environmental clean-up technology

Center for Regenerative Design & Collaboration

Turning plastic waste into a low-carbon concrete additive.

Office for Zero Emission Vehicles

Using the power of design to accelerate the adoption of zero-emission road transport

Stuffstr

Enabling an innovative circular economy business model in retail

Dunnet Bay Distillers

Developing lightweight recyclable packaging for a craft spirits company

Mondelēz International

Aiming for long-term net zero carbon goals by accelerating new products and technologies

The Warehouse Group

Making sustainable living easy and affordable for all

Dizzie stackable nestable containers

Dizzie

Unlocking the reuse and refill potential of consumer packaging

Dizzie stackable nestable containers

Tea Sheets

Eliminating plastic waste from one of the world’s most popular and healthy beverages

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Build brands, products, and services

We work with you to bring ideas to life, translate theory into reality, and create future growth platforms, together.

Preserving the planet

How can we make a positive impact on the planet?

In this decisive decade, we can deliver world-saving change by working together to deliver targeted action.

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We look forward to hearing from you.

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