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Understanding These Sample Results
This example reflects typical priorities for landscaping businesses, but your unique services, client base, or regional context may shape your sustainability plan. For customised recommendations that fit your business size, project types, and goals, take our quick materiality assessment quiz. You’ll receive a tailored action plan designed to help you reduce waste, conserve resources, and strengthen your reputation as an eco-conscious industry leader.
How We Identify Key Impact Areas
Our assessment tool evaluates six landscaping-specific sustainability pillars:
View the sample report below to explore them all in detail.
Using double materiality principles, we analyse both how sustainability issues affect your business’s profitability and reputation (such as client demand for eco-friendly services or regulatory compliance) and how your operations impact the environment and community (like reducing landfill waste or protecting local biodiversity).
Your Custom Sustainability Roadmap
This sample roadmap focuses on high-impact, achievable steps, starting strong with 3 quick wins:
Build Momentum: Targeted Strategies
Each priority area includes expert-backed solutions like:
Track & Share Progress Effectively
We emphasise transparent reporting frameworks and industry certifications to help you:
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We've estimated your sustainability priorities based on your answers. For a precise evaluation, it would be best to speak to an expert.
There's a lot to consider, but to maximise your efforts here are 3 high impact actions to start with.
Transform green waste into a useful resource by chipping it on site and reusing is as mulch or diverting it to a third party who uses or composts it. This reduces transport and landfill emissions and improves soil health.
Implement comprehensive health and safety practices to protect your staff from harm. Strong safety protocols and culture protect your team, avoid legal risks, and create a more productive environment.
Choose native and drought-resistant species for your project landscaping. You'll reduce water demand, improve resilience and reduce maintenance, and support local biodiversity.
Selecting sustainable building materials and responsible suppliers. Your material choices determine a building's environmental footprint and health impacts for decades to come.
Choose native and drought-resistant species for your project landscaping. You'll reduce water demand, improve resilience and reduce maintenance, and support local biodiversity.
Choose sustainable materials like FSC certified or reclaimed timber, recycled steel, low-VOC paints and low-carbon concrete. These changes can significantly reduce the footprint of your projects, create healthier spaces, and meet growing demand for green buildings.
Verify that all your project partners follow proper labour and safety standards. Their standards are your standards in the eyes of your customers, so you'll reduce risk to your business as well as ensure quality work and your good reputation.
Creating safe, fair conditions for construction workers. Healthy, respected employees have fewer accidents, produce higher quality work, and help maintain project timelines.
Implement comprehensive health and safety practices to protect your staff from harm. Strong safety protocols and culture protect your team, avoid legal risks, and create a more productive environment.
Align your practices with ILO International Labour Standards while ensuring you meet all local labour laws and industry agreements. Meeting these standards protects your workers' rights and protects your business against legal and reputational issues.
Foster an environment where employees feel valued, supported, listened to and empowered. A positive culture, inclusion of diversity, employee consultation and mental health protections boost morale, reduce turnover and attract top talent.
Create comprehensive policies that establish clear standards and expectations of employees and business partners. Well-crafted policies reduce risk to your business by ensuring staff alignment and also enable you to articulate business commitments to new starters and stakeholders.
Managing energy use and emissions in construction projects. Energy-efficient designs and practices reduce costs, minimise climate impact, and meet growing demand for green buildings.
Replace older vehicles and equipment with efficient or electric alternatives or biodiesel or other low-carbon fuels. You'll reduce fuel costs by using less, cut emissions, and often benefit from quieter, more reliable equipment.
Schedule regular maintenance and train operators to minimise idling. Well-maintained equipment uses less fuel, causes less air pollution, breaks down less often, and typically lasts longer too.
Business travel can be a significant contribution to your company's carbon footprint, especially premium flight classes. Reducing the need for frequent travel, such as encouraging virtual meetings and train over air, can reduce this and make for happier employees.
Minimising and managing construction and demolition debris. Reducing waste cuts disposal costs, conserves resources, and often identifies opportunities to recover valuable materials.
Transform green waste into a useful resource by chipping it on site and reusing is as mulch or diverting it to a third party who uses or composts it. This reduces transport and landfill emissions and improves soil health.
Managing hazardous materials and preventing pollution at construction sites. Proper chemical handling protects workers, communities, and the environment while reducing liability.
Manage fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides carefully and opt for less harmful alternatives. You'll achieve the same beautiful outdoor areas while protecting local ecosystems and reducing health risks to your staff and the local community.
Ensure pricing transparency, customer protections, and fair billing practices. Ethical governance builds trust and fosters sustainable business growth.
Implement a structured EMS to monitor and manage environmental emissions and hazards. A clear system provides transparency and ensures compliance while driving continuous improvement.
Ensure transparency in pricing and billing and adhere to responsible sales practices protecting customers from unnecessary works. Ethical practices build trust, enhance reputation, and attract repeat customers
Collect data on your environmental and social footprint. Tracking performance helps identify opportunities for improvement and demonstrate progress to stakeholders.
Develop a sustainability strategy that identifies your specific environmental and social priority areas with clear targets and an action plan to achieve them. A focused roadmap aligns your team and drives meaningful change.
Report on your sustainability commitments and progress honestly and transparently, and aligned with best practice frameworks. Sharing both the good and the bad builds trust with customers, staff, and stakeholders while showcasing your efforts.
Pursue certifications that validate your sustainability efforts in your operations and designs. Achieving recognised standards demonstrates leadership, enhances credibility, and attracts conscious clients and partners.
A materiality assessment is a process for landscaping businesses to identify and prioritise the most important ESG issues, such as chemical use, waste management, and employee safety.
Landscaping businesses benefit from a materiality assessment by focusing on issues like reducing chemical use, managing green waste, and ensuring workplace safety, which can lower costs, attract clients, and ensure compliance.
The process involves engaging stakeholders, analysing business impacts, and ranking issues by importance. For landscaping businesses, this might include assessing supply chain ethics, energy use, and community engagement.
Best practice is to update your materiality assessment annually, or when there are significant changes in your business, regulations, or stakeholder expectations.
Start with our industry-specific materiality assessment quiz. This will help you identify your key priorities and create a tailored action plan for sustainability.