Sustainability has outgrown its buzzword phase. In 2025 it is the yardstick for resilience, investment and brand trust. To spotlight the organisations setting that pace, we analysed public ESG reports, third-party certifications and year-on-year impact figures from January 2024 to April 2025. From next-gen packaging labs to data-driven ESG platforms, each company below proves that profits and planetary stewardship can, and must, scale together.
Whether you run procurement, invest in green tech or simply want proof that ambitious targets translate into hard numbers, these stories provide both inspiration and a benchmark. Explore the companies below to see how measurable action beats marketing spin and why the real winners are already compounding returns in talent, revenue and reputation.
TotalSurf
Managing Director - Chris Brown
Website - https://totalsurf.net/
"As one of the leading UK-based SEO agencies, we’re proud to announce totalsurf’s complete transition to a 100% green energy business, setting a new benchmark for sustainability within the digital marketing sector. This commitment is spearheaded by our brand-new office, powered primarily by a state-of-the-art 34-panel rooftop solar installation.
During the sunnier months, our solar array generates an impressive 14.6 kWh per hour, yielding up to 88 kWh on a typical sunny day. This not only covers our entire daytime electricity needs but also allows us to export surplus energy back to the national grid. As the days shorten, we switch to a green energy supplier, ensuring our dedication to sustainability remains unwavering year-round.
We take a holistic approach to energy efficiency, so in every instance, we try to use as little energy as possible, all the way down to switching all electrical equipment off as soon as we stop using it. This ethos permeates every aspect of our operations, from the choice of low-energy LED lighting to the implementation of a heat pump for all heating and cooling, eliminating the need for fossil fuel gas. Furthermore, our company car fleet is entirely electric, and even our coffee machine is chosen for its low energy consumption.
At totalsurf, leading in SEO doesn't preclude us from leading in sustainability. By integrating our digital marketing expertise with a profound commitment to green energy, we demonstrate that driving online success for clients and fostering positive change for our planet can, and should, go hand-in-hand."
FuturePlus
Founders - Alexandra Smith and Mike Penrose
Website - https://www.future-plus.co.uk/
FuturePlus is a multi award-winning sustainability and ESG management and reporting platform that makes managing social and environmental impact accessible, affordable, achievable and trackable for every business, not just the 1%.
As part of The Sustainability Group (TSG) FuturePlus qualifies a company’s sustainability achievements before quantifying and translating them into a realistic, trackable action plan.
Its indicators, comprised of 200-300 questions, educate companies and business leaders to take practical, incremental steps towards sustainability by focusing on five themes: Climate, Economic, Diversity & Inclusion, Social and Environment. Its indicators align with all 17 of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Based in London, U.K., FuturePlus has gained hockey stick growth.
Last year TSG raised more than planned in a new seven-figure funding round, which lifted their value to five times what it was at launch in 2022 and pushed total funding to £2.7 million. In 2024 FuturePlus boosted its client base by 50 percent and its staff by 29 percent, giving it more than 300 clients in finance, hospitality, technology, construction, and retail. The company is also widening its global reach, adding a presence in the USA, the Caribbean, Australia, Mauritius, and Ukraine alongside its strong UK and EMEA footing.
Landys Chemist
Head Of Wellness - Mitesh Desai
Website - https://www.landyschemist.com
Landys Chemist, an unsuspecting UK sustainability champion, have been working towards ambitious sustainability targets since 2015. In that time they have remarkably become an entirely plastic free operation despite shipping goods via their E-Commerce site to over 100 countries worldwide.
They've also become a recycling champion; recycling between 95 and 99% of all their waste through a trusted and vetted partner. When they refurbished their flagship store in 2019, sustainability was at the heart of many choices, including fitting sustainability sourced tiles which were shown to hold heat efficiently and thus reducing the need for electricity.
Whilst many companies only embrace sustainability up to the point where it's profitable to do so, Landys Chemist accepted that their packaging costs would need to rise to allow for this change.
CEO Mitesh Desai says, "In truth switching from bubble wrap to paper based alternatives increased our packaging costs by around 100%. That said, we found that so many consumers loved the switch. It led to loads of positive reviews and since we embarked on the journey towards sustainability our revenue has more than doubled."
Indeed Landys' work has paid off handsomely; in 2023 they were picked out at the Pharmacy Business Awards as the sustainable pharmacy of the year.
Haier UK & Ireland
CEO - Diego Perrone
Website - https://www.haier-europe.com/
Haier Europe’s sustainability commitment is showing real-world momentum: in 2023 the appliance giant recovered virtually all of its waste, slashed water use, ramped up onsite solar and locked in certificates that guarantee its Turkish factories run on 100% green power. With a pledge to source 60% of all energy from renewables by this year, this manufacturer is turning climate targets into hard metrics.
Last year Haier added two heavyweight solar arrays: a 5.25MWp plant in Turkey and a 3.3MW installation in China. Those projects feed a broader plan to draw 60% of all factory electricity from renewables by this year, a goal filed with the Science Based Targets initiative. One milestone is already locked in: an I-REC certificate now verifies that every kilowatt-hour used in Haier’s Turkish operations for 2024 comes from renewable sources.
Operational waste is almost a closed loop: 96% of all material was recovered or recycled in 2023 and water-recycling systems have driven a 60% drop in consumption across plants since 2020. Haier’s sustainability chief, Karim Bruneo, says these wins prove energy efficiency and circular innovations can run through every layer of the business.
The company’s product line mirrors its factory progress: 100% of Haier-branded washing machines (and Candy and Haier ovens) carry top-tier A-Class energy labels. Connected through the hOn smart-home platform, those appliances nudge users toward lower-energy cycles, extending the savings beyond the factory gate.
Late 2024 brought Forest Stewardship Council Chain-of-Custody certification, confirming that wood-based materials in appliances built in Italy, Turkey and China come from responsibly managed forests. Together with I-REC validation and forthcoming science-based targets, these labels give external assurance that Haier’s numbers aren’t self-graded.
With most easy wins already banked the heavy lift now is hitting that 60% renewable-energy mix across every global site by the end of 2025. If the past year’s pace holds, Haier Europe looks on track to get there, proving large-scale manufacturing can still play in the zero-carbon transition.
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Multi Quote Time
CEO - Eamonn Turley
Website - https://www.multiquotetime.com/
Multi Quote Time is a UK-based, fully-digital insurance-comparison portal, letting customers compare dozens of niche and mainstream policies without paying a fee or filling out paper forms. Its founder-CEO, Eamonn Turley, positions the platform as an AI-driven case study in making financial services “accessible, transparent and user-friendly,” thanks to a machine-learning quote engine that sifts complex risk data in seconds.
Operating as a remote-first company, Multi Quote Time cuts the commuter miles, office heating and print waste that inflate most brokers’ footprints; recent studies show a switch to full-time remote work can trim an employee’s work-related carbon emissions by roughly 54%. Turley also promotes inclusive remote-team practices (mentorship circles, asynchronous updates, mental-health check-ins) which he argues are key to keeping distributed staff engaged.
On the customer side, the site nudges buyers toward carriers that publish clear ESG policies and warns travellers to lock in cover early - “ideally when booking your trip” - so that unexpected cancellations don’t become climate-costly repeat flights.
Multi Quote Time’s own research shows the ESG gap many regional brokers face: 60% acknowledge sustainability matters yet feel paralysed by limited budgets, unclear rules and doubts over ROI. By open-sourcing that data and sharing step-by-step guides, the company aims to lower those barriers and channel more SME insurance spend toward genuinely responsible underwriters, turning transparency itself into a climate-positive growth flywheel.
Challenge Works
Managing Director - Holly Jamieson
Website - https://challengeworks.org/
Challenge Works, a social enterprise within the UK innovation foundation Nesta, builds global prize competitions that turn tough social or environmental problems into clear, cash-backed challenges. This format gives start-ups and seasoned outfits equal footing: teams move through staged milestones, collect seed funding, receive expert mentoring and, if they deliver the breakthrough, secure a headline payout!
The scale of its recent programmes shows the breadth of issues on its radar: the UK-government-funded £1 million Manchester Prize is pushing developers to create AI tools that will accelerate Britain’s shift to a clean-energy grid by 2030.
Regulator Ofwat’s £400 million Innovation Fund rewards ideas that curb water pollution, build a Net-Zero network and reinvent sewage management across England and Wales. Meanwhile, the UK Space Agency–backed Aqualunar Challenge pays teams to extract drinkable water from lunar ice, technology that could later aid Earth’s most drought-stricken regions.
Challenge Works operates on the belief that complex crises demand many solutions, not a single “silver bullet.” By rallying diverse innovators, bankrolling prototypes and sustaining momentum after prizes close, it leaves behind a pipeline of companies ready to carry real-world answers forward.
Osolvo
Founder and Director - Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos
Website - www.osolvo.com
Osolvo, a marketing agency headquartered in Greece, has gone all-in on green hosting: every site it manages now runs on servers powered entirely by renewable energy. With the International Energy Agency estimating that data centres already draw roughly one per cent of the world’s electricity, the switch is Osolvo’s way of shrinking its slice of the digital carbon pie.
The company backs the move with a simple give-back scheme called “One Tree per Website.” Whenever a new client’s site goes live, Osolvo funds the planting of a tree, adding a small reforestation boost to the carbon-neutral hosting.
Sustainability also shapes the way the team works. Osolvo is remote-only, so there are no daily commutes or energy-hungry offices. Absorbing a roughly 30% rise in operating costs to make the transition, founder Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos calls the spend “an investment, not a marketing line.”
“Digital infrastructure has a footprint we can’t ignore, and businesses have to lead the clean-up,” he says.
For clients, the message is clear: you can run high-performance websites and still keep emissions low — Osolvo has already done the heavy lifting.
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NBCo
Founder and CEO - Alvin Lim
Website - https://nbco.world/
NBCo is turning the idea of a “disappearing package” into commercial reality with mould-fibre bottles made from bamboo and bagasse that are up to 99 % recyclable or biodegradable and use natural barrier coatings instead of plastic. By replacing fossil resins entirely, the containers match PET-level durability while offering brands a credible route to ditch single-use plastics.
What makes the concept scalable is NBCo’s decentralised manufacturing network: the company licenses its moulding tech to regional partners so bottles are produced close to filling sites, cutting freight emissions and creating local green-economy jobs at the same time. This circular, hyper-local model ensures regenerative packaging isn’t limited to a handful of flagship projects but can roll out quickly across global supply chains.
To speed adoption, NBCo launched the “Fast Forward 50” initiative at Davos 2025, offering the first 50 brands 50 free pilot runs of its fibre bottles, complete with technical support and performance testing. The programme removes financial and operational risk for early movers, letting them trial the format in real-world conditions before committing at scale.
Industry voices have hailed the bottle as a blueprint for regenerative design; A Plastic Planet co-founder Sian Sutherland called it “a realistic and rapid way to move beyond plastic” during the Davos launch event. With its combination of compostable materials, localised production and risk-free pilots, NBCo is positioning itself as a key enabler for brands that want packaging to leave no trace—and do so at industrial volumes.
Caleb Cottam
Website - www.certifiedrubbish.co.uk
CertifiedRubbish is a platform designed to combat the epidemic of fly-tipping in the UK. One of the biggest causes of fly-tipping is the hiring of unlicensed waste carriers - who simply dump waste wherever they can to save money. Unlicensed waste carriers prey on the public who aren't aware of their responsibilities when it comes to waste disposal, and they undercut legitimate, local businesses.
This causes significant harm to the environment, and costs the UK government, and the tax payer millions each year. In 2023/2024, there were 1.15 million incidents of fly-tipping across the UK, a 6% increase from 2022/2023.
The Certified Rubbish platform allows members of the public and/or businesses to search a directory of every single licensed waste carrier in the UK. They can also request a quote which is sent out to all licensed waste carriers in the area - making the process simple and easy.
Residents and businesses are generally not aware that if their waste is given to an unlicensed waste carrier, they commit a criminal offence! They could receive a Fixed Penalty Notice of up to £600, or a criminal record if found guilty in court.
We are also implementing a system to ensure businesses can smoothly transition into the mandatory waste tracking changes coming into force in April 2026.
We are encouraging industry leaders, waste professionals and all stakeholders in waste management and environmental crime to reach out and support our mission to tackle fly-tipping.
If 2024 was the year sustainability targets hardened into board-room KPIs, 2025 is the year those numbers go public. From mould-fibre bottles to remote-first insurers, these companies prove that measurable climate wins can ride alongside revenue growth.
Their common thread is transparency: audits you can download, dashboards you can track and pilot schemes you can replicate. For brands still weighing the cost of change, the evidence is clear... delay now and you’ll spend more later catching up.
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