TSA’s updates help commercial laundries enhance carbon emission reporting
The Textile Services Association (TSA) has announced updates to its GLARE platform, which is designed to calculate commercial laundries’ carbon emissions. Accessed via the GLARE (Global Laundry and Rental Emissions) dashboard, the new features will help laundries to calculate figures more accurately and build more relevant carbon emission numbers into their sustainability reporting. In the future, GLARE is aiming to enable the laundries to offer individual customers an estimated breakdown of the emissions per kg from their own processed laundry.
Carbon figures are increasingly required by organisations such as hotels and healthcare groups, as part of their environmental objectives. They are particularly important in measuring scope 3 emissions. The GLARE platform is tailored to the laundry industry and makes it easy not only to add usage data but also to measure carbon emissions.
The ability to give customers like hotels a calculation per kg of their own laundry items has been welcomed by members of UK Hospitality. GLARE will be able to take into account factors including product mix, volume and the type of laundry (hospitality, healthcare, workwear, and so on) when calculating the figures. The platform is based on the Greenhouse Gas protocol, so laundries can record and track carbon emissions using established methodology.
‘We pride ourselves on providing efficient and quality textile services,” says Doug Muttitt, Managing Director of Swiss Camplings Laundry. “Measuring, reporting and improving our emissions forms an important part of our partnership with our customers and suppliers. The GLARE platform enables us to do that in a comparable, consistent and laundry-specific way based on GHG protocol methodology. With sustainability at the heart of our values, alongside people and our customers, we wanted to be able to understand our carbon footprint and where to focus our efforts on the path to net zero and the GLARE platform has helped us do that.”
Another exciting feature under development will enable laundries to provide a detailed breakdown of their scope 3 emissions. It will create a report and give a score – a higher score indicates that the laundry has captured more indirect emissions. This feature will help the laundries showcase their sustainability commitments to customers and employees.
“By enabling laundries to measure their carbon footprint, GLARE is empowering them to set up meaningful carbon reduction plans,” says Shyju Skariah, programmes and projects director at the TSA. “There are many different ways to measure carbon emissions, each of which will give a different outcome. By offering a standardised approach, GLARE helps laundries and their customers to set carbon reduction targets against agreed baselines.”
The TSA is continuing to develop GLARE– the pipeline includes additional emission factors to enable laundries to give even more detailed figures. For more information on the GLARE platform contact the TSA.
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