Sustainable Solutions Services

Implement and embed Sustainable Operations into your corporate culture

• Get your C suite to promote the business value of sustainable operations and products.
• Recruit and retain employees by promoting your company’s environmental and social culture while stimulating innovative business solutions.
• Work with your internal team to create an educational roadmap and materials to engage leadership and employees. Include your own best practice case studies.

Report progress toward your sustainability goals

• Give solid evidence to customers and investors of your sustainable products and practices.
• Identify and report your major actions against quantitative and qualitative goals. Show strategies that address gaps relevant to your stakeholders.
• Help your internal sustainability experts and marketing team to report progress in a competitive business manner.

Apply to the prestigious Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World)

• Grow your market reputation and earn recognition as a global leader from your customers, employees, investors and other stakeholders.
• Present your capabilities and strengths within the formal application. Build internal capacity within your organization for sustainable practices and ownership

Quantify your carbon footprint and manage the causes

• Use the Carbon Disclosure Project to tell investors about your carbon opportunities and risks. Ask if you are simply starting to quantify your carbon footprint or working to improve the process. Understand the key factors of your carbon emissions to manage the processes.
• Look for Emission Reduction Credit opportunities.  Find ways to cut use of electricity, natural gas, and other carbon sources. Capture, verify and execute the sale of the carbon credits. Help your marketers and customer-facing employees tell customers about your accomplishments.

Increase your manufacturing efficiency

• Enhance the efficiency of your resource-to-product conversion through energy and water conservation, increased operation efficiency, automation, by-product synergies, waste reductions and asset management.
• Identify and initiate programs to implement and monitor continuous improvement. Do it at both enterprise and individual plant levels.

Extend your social and environmental imperatives to your supply chain

• Work with your team to identify opportunities and risks within your supply chain.
• Facilitate meetings and drive initiatives that include your supply chain partners to have an even more profound benefit on environmental and social issues pertinent to your markets and customers.
• Work with your marketing professionals to most effectively communicate your accomplishments to your customers and markets.

Benchmark against competitors in your industry

• Develop case stories and/or benchmark technologies others in your industry are utilizing to reduce their environmental impact.
• Identify opportunities to utilize best practices in other industries that may be relevant to your company.

What PTIS has done in developing sustainability training, workshops, seminars and corporate communication programs that can be tailored to your needs.  Just some of our recent sustainability work:

• Authored two leading sustainability multiclient studies published by BNP, Understanding & Executing Sustainability Initiatives & Sustainable Packaging Programs, and Sustainability and Sustainable Packaging.
• Facilitated development of sustainable packaging vision, mission, strategies and objectives for Trade Association and Fortune 100/500 organizations delivering triple bottom line benefits.
• Developed and provided training on Sustainability and the Wal-Mart Packaging Scorecard.
• Completed numerous Raw Material Provider, Converter, Brand Owner and Retailer sustainable packaging research surveys to identify issues, hurdles and opportunities.
• Development of sustainability strategy and program development for Fortune 100/500 organizations.
• Co-sponsor with DuPont of the Future for Sustainable Packaging 2008-2018 multi-sponsor consortium with 17 leading companies across the global value chain.
• Completed two ten-year Future for Packaging multi-sponsor programs in 2004 and 2007 and were the first to identify sustainable packaging as an issue and opportunity (2004).
• Numerous trade journal articles on sustainable leadership and regular speaking engagements across the value chain.
• Comprehensive and proprietary sustainability and sustainable packaging data bases and workshops including:
  • Proprietary Company Sustainability Programs
  • Proprietary software tools to capture, monitor and report on sustainability programs and progress specific to client industry and sector
  • Packaging LCA/LCI
  • Sustainable Packaging Insights to Opportunities
  • North American and European Legislation
  • Consumer, Channel, and Technology Insights

Terry Bedell

Associate, Packaging &Technology Integrated Solutions

Terry Bedell, CPP, has a 40-plus year career that includes being a Research Fellow in Packaging at the Clorox Co. There, he led the development of a vision and long-term strategy for this function.  He also led company-wide initiatives to apply packaging innovation as a key business growth driver. Earlier, he led consumer product R&D efforts with General Foods, Lipton, Riviana Foods, and Clorox.

His commitment of optimum use of packaging and sustainability grew in several technical advisory roles for the Coalition of Northeastern Governors (CONEG), the Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP), the Southern States Waste Management Coalition and the California Integrated Waste Management Board.  He was vice-chair of the Council on Packaging for the Environment (COPE). Terry built on that experience with PTIS, becoming a resource on lifecycle inventories (LCI) and lifecycle analysis (LCA). He is a Certified Packaging Professional, Fellow member of IoPP, and was inducted into the Packaging Hall of Fame 2007.

Todd Bukowski

Associate, Packaging &Technology Integrated Solutions

Todd Bukowski is a packaging professional with more than 15 years of experience in food and pharmaceutical packaging, working in both R&D and operations capacities.  Todd's past work experience includes packaging development at Kraft Foods, M&M/Mars, and Tap Pharmaceuticals. While at PTIS, Todd has worked on numerous technology searches, package development process improvement workflows, packaging development strategy projects and has been instrumental in many PTIS sustainability initiatives.  He also tracks consumer, channel, sustainability, and technology trends for PTIS. Todd was a lead presenter at the Future of Packaging 2007 – 2017 and Future of Sustainable Packaging 2008-2018 programs.

He holds an MBA in Supply Chain Management from Michigan State University. Todd is also an instructor for the Sustainable Packaging Coalition’s Essentials of Sustainable Packaging course.

Barbara McCutchan, Ph.D.

Associate, Packaging & Technology Integrated Solutions

Barbara McCutchan, Ph.D., is a sustainability expert with 20-plus years of experience in the packaging and forestry industry sector. She has a strong record as a catalyst for change in corporate responsibility and global sustainability. She develops policy and builds capacity within organizations to embed sustainability practices. Her focal areas include:  Integrating Sustainability into Operations, Customer and Investor Responses, DJSI World Application, Sustainability Reporting, Ethical Supply Chain Sourcing, and Forest Genetics.

Prior to becoming a consultant, Barbara was Director, Enterprise Stewardship & Sustainability for MeadWestvaco Corp. She led enterprise-wide stewardship and sustainability coordination, monitoring, and sustainability and carbon reporting. She helped develop information and materials to train and support customer and investor relations. Notably, she was responsible for MeadWestvaco being included in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for five consecutive years 2005 through 2009; at that time, MeadWestvaco was the leader in the Containers & Packaging group, recognizing MeadWestvaco’s economic, environmental and social leading performance.

Phil McKiernan

Principal, Packaging & Technology Integrated Solutions

Phil McKiernan brings over 20 years of new product development, productivity enhancement, and process-oriented business leadership to PTIS. Phil joined PTIS as a principal in 2008, with prior work as a PTIS Senior Associate. His resume includes leadership positions at organizations at Kimberly-Clark Corporation and Sweetheart Cup Company.

As a leader in the creation of new products and packaging, Phil guided cross-functional teams in the development of multi-year product and intellectual property plans, leveraging consumer insights, technology trends and qualitative and quantitative research. Phil delivered a number of speed-to-market, cost savings and quality enhancements throughout his career. Phil is also a leader in sustainability and sustainable packaging. He is an expert in the Wal-Mart Sustainable Packaging Scorecard and modeling software and is qualified to teach the Sustainable Packaging Coalition Essentials of Sustainable Packaging workshop.

Mike Richmond, Ph.D.

Principal, Packaging & Technology Integrated Solutions

Mike Richmond is a strategic business and technical leader with 25 years of experience. He co-founded PTIS in 2000, building on experience with Kellogg, Kraft, and Michigan State University. At Kellogg, Mike developed and started up departments including Technology Discovery and Global Packaging Innovation. Mike was instrumental in developing and implementing strategic plans and programs nationally and globally for both Kraft and Kellogg. He led the research and development component of strategic sourcing at both companies, resulting in millions of dollars in savings.

In addition to strong vendor knowledge, Mike has brought new consumer and trade focus to the development of superior solutions to packaging problems globally. He also has is an expert in benchmarking and best practices. Mike has completed executive business programs at both Harvard and Thunderbird and is currently a member of the Board of Directors for Alliance Foods.