Sustainable Products
for a Sustainable Planet

Our Story

The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) is a global non-profit organization transforming the consumer goods industry to deliver more sustainable consumer products. We work to enable a world where people can lead fulfilled lives in a way that decouples their impacts on people and the planet. Our members and partners include manufacturers, retailers, suppliers, service providers, NGOs, civil society organizations, governmental agencies and academics. TSC convenes our diverse stakeholders to work collaboratively to build science-based decision tools and solutions that address sustainability issues that are materially important throughout a product’s supply chain and lifecycle. TSC also offers a portfolio of services to help drive effective improvement and implementation.

Our Vision

We envision a world in the near future where we can experience the benefits of consumer products without causing harm to people or going beyond the environmental limits of our planet.

Our Mission

To use the best sustainability science to help companies make the everyday products we use better and more sustainable.

TSC is committed to bold, innovative and measurable change that is changing the way the sustainability things and functions.

Science-based

We translate the best sustainability science into business and consumer tools for action. We cite over 4,200 peer-reviewed studies in our work.

Stakeholder-informed

We engage more than 600 decision makers and thought leaders across 230 organizations annually to create and implement our tools with more than a dozen retailers.

Focused On Impact

We work towards making all consumer goods sustainable through scalable solutions

We want to use TSC’s hotspots and work on them with our suppliers one by one, bring them to life in the product and tell the customer, providing access at a low price to more sustainable product.

Our History

Learn more about TSC’s history on our TSC 10 sight, celebrating our 10 year anniversary in 2019.

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Our Approach to Product Sustainability

Improving product sustainability and cost efficiency for buyers and suppliers

TSC is the only universal and industry-wide solution to help companies across the full spectrum of their business to create transparent supply chains and lead the industry forward.

Learn About Our Approach

TSC translates the science of sustainability into quantifiable metrics and practical tools for buyers and suppliers to address sustainability issues in their supply chains. We deliver tools that allow buyers and suppliers to:

Buyers

Compare who leads and lags in sustainability performance
Identify suppliers with advanced sustainability practices
Reveal opportunities for market advantages
Reduce supplier survey fatigue
Identify and manage high risk suppliers

Suppliers

Reveal opportunities for supply chain efficiency
Clarify sustainability performance
Communicate directly with retail customers
Identify supply chain risks
Access resources on supply chain impacts

Measure Progress

Measure progress against your sustainability commitments

Benchmark

Benchmark your product sustainability against others making the same types of products

Adopt Metrics

Adopt a holistic set of sustainability metrics that are quantitative, impact-oriented, and aligned with other major measurement and reporting initiatives

Implement Assessments

Implement supplier surveys at scale and low cost with a world-class platform delivered by SupplyShift

See What We Offer

2000+

Over 2,000 users of TSC tools worldwide.
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$1,000,000,000,000

Manufacturers performing THESIS assessments represent almost $1 trillion in annual retail sales.

100+

The Sustainability Consortium has more than 100 members. See our member network »

Where We Work

TSC staff are located around the world.