Partnering to reduce the environmental impact on the planet

Essity has been a member of the UN Global Compact Action Platform on Climate Ambition since 2017. The platform provides an opportunity for collaboration between companies and important stakeholders to address the issues of limiting and adapting to climate change. Essity has also joined the UN Global Compact’s Business Ambition for 1.5°C. 

We take part in discussions throughout the value chain to promote the implementation of circular economy solutions designed to tackle waste, including the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), Edana, Ellen MacArthur Foundation and RecyClass. Through CGF’s Coalition of Action on Plastic Waste, Essity works together with customers, other companies, and organizations to jointly reduce plastic waste and strive to improve social systems, so that no plastic waste is disposed of in nature.

Essity’s partnership with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation provides a forum to share, learn and put into practice ideas for increased circularity for products, packaging, and services, and to jointly promote societal change. We are part of the New Plastic Economy initiative, which is aligned with and impacts external prerequisites for Essity’s target to ensure that all packaging is 100% recyclable and to increase the use of recycled plastic by 2025.

To promote responsible forestry at the global, regional, and national levels, Essity supports the further development of international certification systems. We participate in the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) together with other leading consumer goods companies and are members of CGF’s Forest Positive Coalition of Action initiative to combat global forest degradation, deforestation and to preserve biodiversity.

In 2021, Essity joined the Digital Watermarks Initiative HolyGrail 2.0, which addresses the issue of plastic waste. We are striving to introduce a digital watermark to improve sorting and increase the recycling rate of plastic packaging in the EU. An invisible watermark on packaging helps waste sorting facilities to identify the type of plastic and sort it correctly.