Business case studies

Greater Wellington's sustainable business programme running since 2006. Businesses involved reported benefits including:

• Increase in profits from improving efficiencies, reducing waste and increasing client base due to demonstrated environmental credentials
• Brand building, free marketing and publicity. Businesses involved in the programmehave won environmental/sustainability awards
• Economical (thanks to a government subsidy along with the lower cost of the EnviroMark-NZ process)and easy to follow staged approach to gaining environmental accreditation ISO14001. Click on the documents in the right hand column to learn more about what businesses achieved on the Envirosmart programme.

The documents to the right profile the achievements of some of the businesses involved.