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This session will introduce the fundamentals of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) accounting, focusing on essential methods for tracking, measuring and reporting emissions. Learn how to track scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, and translate these into reportable amounts consistent with key frameworks. These techniques can reveal actionable strategies for minimizing emissions across your organization and supply chain, while meeting regulatory requirements and advancing your climate goals. Ideal for sustainability professionals and organizations looking to strengthen their emission reporting and reduction strategies.

• Design for Disassembly: Explore design and assembly choices that can enable easier mattress disassembly, minimize cross-material contamination, reduce manufacturing waste, and maximize recovery of valuable materials at end-of-life.
• Waste Reduction Across the Value Chain: Share and develop strategies to eliminate waste across production and post-consumer recovery by increasing product longevity, closing in-plant material loops, and optimizing packaging systems.
• Circular Fabrication Materials: Explore current and emerging opportunities to integrate innovative materials—such as recycled content and renewable feedstocks—into products and processes to drive circularity and reduce environmental impacts while maintaining high performance.
• Reducing Lifecycle Carbon Emissions: Identify emissions hotspots and develop actionable strategies across design, production, logistics, and recovery to meaningfully reduce a product’s lifecycle carbon footprint.
• Downstream Communication: Engaging Retailers, Consumers, and Recyclers: Develop practical solutions to enhance communication across the value chain by educating consumers, aligning with retailers, and engaging mattress recyclers.

Climate change, population growth, unsustainable lifestyles – surmounting global challenges like these require embracing sustainability and the circular economy as a guiding light. At Covestro, our goal is to embed circular economic principles into the fabric of our operations and be a trailblazer for the entire plastics industry. A globally leading high-tech polymer manufacturer, Covestro has set a vision to be fully circular. A core component of achieving that vision is focused on joint solutions and collaborations with entities, like the Mattress Recycling Council, that share a similar goal for a more sustainable future. From innovative mattress collection initiatives to advanced and chemical recycling solutions, Covestro and its collaborators work to set the foundation for a new way of working. Closing the loop on a sustainable future is just one way Covestro plans to help achieve climate neutrality.