Environmental performance · Industrial, logistics & maritime
Improve your business's environmental performance to reduce costs, mitigate risks and secure customers
The Circular Bulb is an independent sustainability consultancy based in Rotterdam.
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Environmental requirements are cascading down supply chains. Most suppliers are not ready.
Almost half of the companies with validated SBTi targets are European: 5,723 of 12,092 (47%). SBTi estimates that companies with science based targets or commitments represented 60% of European market capitalisation at the end of 2023.1
MarketLarge customers have set targets on their supply chain emissions
- 77%Scope 3 (the supply chain) is nearly 77% of chemical sector emissions.2
- 98%of the 517 European chemical and manufacturing corporates with validated targets have a Scope 3 target.3
- 94%of the 159 European transport and logistics corporates, covering all modes, have a Scope 3 target.3
- 16%of European corporates (451 of 2,845) also commit to getting a share of their suppliers to set their own science based targets.3
- 1%Only 1% of SMEs with validated targets (69 of 6,655) have a Scope 3 target of their own.3
RegulationNew regulations trigger cascading effects along supply chains in Europe
- PPWR requires companies to introduce circular criteria in their packaging.
- EU ETS is imposing costs on direct carbon emissions.
- FuelEU Maritime requires shipping companies to reduce the lifecycle emissions of their fuels.
- Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) introduces sustainability criteria for products sold in the EU.
- Renewable Energy Directive (RED) requires minimum volumes of renewable fuels compliant with sustainability criteria.
Suppliers who can show credible supply chain data are better placed to keep and win these customers.
See how TCB calculated these figures →Sources: 1 SBTi Monitoring Report 2023. 2 SBTi, Chemicals Sector Status Report (Jan 2023). 3 SBTi Target Dashboard data, 1 Oct 2026, TCB analysis. European follows SBTi's regions and includes the UK, Switzerland and Norway. The percentages describe companies with validated SBTi targets.
The opportunity
Better environmental performance pays off in four ways
Meeting a customer's request is only one reason to improve your environmental performance. The same work pays off inside the business.
Resource efficiency
Map your resource use to identify opportunities for efficiency. Your environmental impact reduces, while your costs go down with it. Resource and energy improvements can pay for themselves, and the opportunities often already exist in your business. Check the case study for an example.
Risk management
Keep track of the environmental regulations that apply to your business, and reduce the risk of costs down the line. Environmental liabilities often sit across separate systems, sometimes unmeasured altogether. A sustainability management system brings them into one overview.
Potential revenue
Align your business with the demand of environmentally active companies to position your business as the preferred supplier. Being ready can open doors to new customers.
Access subsidies for the sustainability transition
A documented baseline and a costed roadmap make it easier to apply for subsidies that support the sustainability transition.
Who TCB works with
Built for suppliers under pressure from their customers and regulations
TCB works best with companies that recognise this picture. If only part of it fits, the conversation is still worth having.
Industrial & logistics suppliers
Companies in industrial, logistics and maritime supply chains, working B2B.
Selling to large customers
Suppliers to large companies that are under the scope of sustainability regulations, or that follow voluntary certifications like EcoVadis, CDP and SBTi, and require upstream information to ensure compliance.
Facing environmental data requests and improvement actions from customers and regulations
Dealing with requests like an ESG questionnaire, carbon emissions information, or packaging recycled content, and feeling the cost of answering them ad hoc.
No in-house environmental expert
Without a consolidated environmental strategy or a dedicated team to build one.
Services
Four ways TCB helps
Each service stands on its own. Start where the pressure is, whether that is a customer questionnaire, a carbon target, a cost problem or a new regulation.
GHG Accounting and Decarbonisation
Measure your company, product, or project emissions and turn the hotspots into a budgeted plan.
PPWR Compliance Support
Work out your role, build the evidence and close the gap with a regulation that has applied since August 2026.
Circular Resource Use Strategies
Find where materials and energy are lost, and assess the options to recover them.
ESG Strategy and Reporting
Answer customer questionnaires and EcoVadis, set priorities and publish a VSME-aligned report.
Case study
When the numbers get run, savings and risks surface together
"We were losing 28% of a feedstock as CO₂. Nobody had flagged it until we ran the numbers."
A product carbon footprint uncovered a feedstock loss that engineering fixed with a solution that could pay for itself. And the data gathered for reporting became a live business dashboard for the directors.
Sustainability data, pulled together, is business intelligence. That is the shift TCB helps suppliers around the Port of Rotterdam make.
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About
Independent. Experienced. Rotterdam-based.
Most suppliers meet environmental requirements for the first time as a customer demand: a carbon data form, a product footprint request, an EcoVadis questionnaire. TCB exists because those companies deserve the same quality of sustainability support that large corporations hire in-house.
Behind TCB is Luciano Lopez: 14 years across project management and environmental consultancy, and hands-on sustainability delivery inside the Rotterdam petrochemical industry, including building a sustainability management system from scratch as the sole sustainability officer of a chemical site in Rotterdam.
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Free resources for suppliers
Practical content on the regulations and frameworks that matter for companies in industrial and logistics supply chains.
Article
Your customer asked for proof behind a green claim. Now what?
How the EU Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive (ECGT) turns the green claims companies make to consumers into data requests for their suppliers, and the practical steps a supplier can take to be ready.
Read the article →Resource hub
Guides on ESG basics, legislation and PPWR
Starter guides for non-sustainability professionals: what ESG is, which EU rules can reach your business through your customers, and what PPWR requires from packaging.
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