2024 Calvin Frost Sustainability Leadership Awards Highlight: Resource Label Group
Resource Label Group – Changing Company Culture, The Path to Sustainable Success
The Calvin Frost Sustainability Leadership Awards celebrate TLMI members’ innovative efforts to impact the environment and society positively. 2024’s Trailhead, Journey, and Elevation category winners have set new benchmarks for sustainable practices, inspiring others to follow in their footsteps. Today, I’ll blog about Resource Label Group (RLG), the Journey level converter category winner.
RLG believes that you cannot achieve success in sustainability areas without creating a unified company culture and that a strong, healthy culture is more important than even salary. By that, they mean fostering recognition in every direction: employee to employee, top-down, and bottom-up.
The Award judges were very impressed with all that RLG has accomplished, especially their RL Green program. The RLGreen program demonstrates the financial benefits of sustainability initiatives and incentivizes sales managers who contribute to the growth of the RLGreen portfolio. This approach has led to an increase in the number of employees engaged in sustainability topics with RLG’s sustainability champions as well as some impressive statistics.
In the previous 12 months, RLG:
- Reduced water usage by 9%
- Reduced materials sent to landfill by 332 tons
- Increased recycling by 4,564 pounds
- Reduced VOC emissions by 2%
- Reduced electricity usage by 2%
- Improved CDP and EcoVadis scores
- Implemented Science-Based Targets Initiative
RLG believes that measuring performance within an organization is more than just a numerical exercise. It serves as a catalyst for engaging team members across various departments and underscores the commitment to continuous improvement. By establishing a culture that values measurement and feedback, companies can harness the collective intelligence of their workforce to drive meaningful change.