thinkgreen – UTi's environmental action plan
UTi has always been conscious of the implications of our business activities on the environment and as such, we crystallized this into what we call UTi thinkgreen Our purpose statement is as follows:
"UTi thinkgreen seeks to preserve our planet for generations to come by working collaboratively with our clients, suppliers, and associates to make sustainable and valuable supply chain services and solutions a reality without cost tradeoffs."
To accomplish this, we have established the following objectives to focus our efforts. These objectives serve as our basis on which we are building and creating solutions for our clients, morale for our employees, and an improved environment for our planet. These objectives are:
- Develop green services and solutions to facilitate our clients' sustainability goals
- Actively develop our internal green capabilities
- Balance our actions so that our approach makes business sense
- Document our green initiatives so that we may aid others in their goals
- Conduct research to stay current on regulations and market trends
- Do the right thing
Current thinkgreen activities
- Client carbon footprint calculations utilizing our proprietary UTi ECOTool based on the GHG protocol standards. With this tool, we can calculate the carbon emissions associated with any UTi service – including all transportation modes and warehousing activities
- Integrating sustainability into UTi's global ISO 9001:2008 quality compliance effort and piloting ISO 14001 in some regions
- Building internal knowledge repositories to document and leverage UTi's global sustainability best practices
- Leveraging our U.S. EPA partnership to reduce miles and fuel consumption for our clients
- Expanding our network and route optimization capabilities to analyze and report the green impact of various scenarios for clients
- Working with our clients to identify opportunities to establish LEED-certified buildings
- UTi operates the largest LEED-certified distribution center in the USA
