Facilities Management Consultant | helping organisations troubleshoot their FM services by improving procurement, benchmarking, contract management and operational efficiency

👉 EMC is a specialist consultancy supporting the full FM contract lifecycle, 

👉 audit → improve → market test/tender → mobilise → manage with a practical focus on making services testable, supplier performance evidence-led, and decisions commercially defensible.

👉Accomplished consultant supporting organisations to benchmark, procure, audit, tender and manage FM services with more control, better value, and fewer contract headaches.

From individual contracts to TFM & IFM. Specialist in PFI audits, benchmarking & tender strategy, bid evaluation, mobilisation support, ESG/social value alignment and ongoing contract management, I ensure your FM outcomes are contractual, measurable, and deliverable.

Let’s make your FM contract, tender, audit or benchmark perform and provide the best outcome for your organisation.

#facilitiesmanagement #fm #procurement #tendering #contractmanagement #benchmarking #PFI #PFIhandback

So far, that work has delivered:

•	£25m+ in savings across public and private RFPs
•	12–22% average cost reduction on re-tendered FM
•	Up to 30% gaps in legacy PFI soft services rates
•	£1.1m annual saving on one PFI contract.

It’s not just about cost. 

We drive service quality and ESG performance:

•	Clear KPIs and SLAs that increase uptime
•	Strong contract governance so issues get fixed
•	ESG and social value built into tenders
•	Suppliers held to account on Scope 3

What this looks like for clients:

•	Turn a “fixed” FM contract into a 6–7 figure saving
•	Catering deals that have drifted 15–20%
•	Replace vague promises with measurable KPIs
•	Give boards and CFOs a data-backed story

If you suspect your FM or PFI soft services are 10–20% over market – or your ESG story is mostly on paper – you’re probably right.

Send me a message with “BENCHMARK” and I’ll tell you in plain English where you stand on cost, quality and ESG.

Ernie Melling IFMA ,TMA

🌎 On a Mission to Eliminate 1 BILLION Pounds of Plastic Annually! 👉 Let’s connect today!

I'm dedicated to eliminating BILLIONS of pounds of plastic by making circular compostable packaging a reality for every brand.  We've made circular compostable packaging solutions easily accessible, and help brands get them effectively composted, powering sustainability impact to drive brand value and financial success.

With 25 years at the helm of Elevate Packaging, I have pioneered and led the charge in providing world leading, reliable, high-quality compostable packaging solutions for the leading sustainable brands.

Our mission is to make it easy for your business to seamlessly move beyond traditional plastics to circular compostable packaging, making sustainability an easy choice and a big win for your business.

Leveraging my deep expertise in strategy, technology, and business innovation, I've identified and developed market leading solutions to reduce packaging waste, introducing industry-first compostable products and enabling circular packaging systems.

As a speaker, investor, and a key contributor to sustainability councils, I strive to lead by example in both my professional and personal life and promoting a healthier planet for future generations.

Let's make a difference together!

Rich Cohen

I'm speaking at B2B Online Chicago 2026, to join me click here https://lnkd.in/gt7Yfv_9 #B2BOnline #B2BOnlineChicago

B2B Distribution has been making a quiet shift.

As I was preparing trending topics for leading a roundtable with distributors at the upcoming B2B Online, I’ve been thinking about something many B2B distributors are beginning to notice.

Customers are asking more often for packaging that is:
✅  #Compostable
✅  #Plasticfree
✅  #PFAS-free
✅  Compliant with emerging packaging regulations, like #EPR

This shift is not just consumer driven.

It is coming from brands responding to retailer requirements, sustainability commitments, and new legislation.

For distributors, this raises an interesting question.

Will sustainable packaging remain a niche category, or will it become a standard product attribute, like recyclable, recycled, food-safe, or FDA compliant?

B2B e-commerce leaders understand that distributors who win are often the ones who recognize new product attributes early and structure them into their catalogs, like Zoro.com, before competitors do.

Curious to hear from other distributors:
👉 Are you seeing sustainability show up more often in product searches, RFQs, or procurement requirements?

#B2BDistribution
#SustainablePackaging
#CircularEconomy
Lena Jawdat Angelica Cieslak, MBA
Modern Distribution Management (MDM) Distribution Strategy Group

B2B distribution sustainable compostable recyclable EPR eco-friendly biodegradable 

Hey Distributors!
Sustainability is a powerful product attribute! 🌎

One of the most interesting shifts happening in B2B distribution is how sustainability attributes now appear directly inside product data and digital catalogs.

For decades, product discovery has depended on structured attributes like: Weight, Dimensions, Material, Temperature rating, Certifications, etc.

These attributes allow buyers to quickly identify the right product.

Now sustainability is joining that list. 🌿

Procurement teams are increasingly searching for products based on attributes such as:

 🌎  Plastic-free
 🌎  Compostable and Biodegradable 
 🌎  Recyclable
 🌎  Low Environmental Impact
 🌎  Environmental Regulatory Compliance

Distributors are now using sustainability data as structured data elements in digital catalogs as a means to improve product discovery and to support rapidly growing procurement requirements.

This is helping distributors differentiate their offering and capture emerging demand.

When that essential sustainability information is missing, buyers often move on to the next supplier.

What makes this shift even more interesting is who is now participating. 🤔

Even business leaders who have historically supported organizations skeptical of climate policy are now awakening and adapting to the market reality.

For example, leadership at Uline has long been associated with funding groups critical of climate regulation.  Yet today Uline prominently markets and distributes a wide range of sustainable and environmentally responsible packaging products in its catalog.  Industry experts say this is a huge about-face for them.

That tells us something important.‼️

This shift is not ideological.

It’s market driven. 💪

Customer demand, procurement requirements, regulatory pressure, and digital product discovery are all pushing sustainability directly into the structure of B2B commerce.

When even the most skeptical corners of the market begin promoting sustainable solutions, you know the shift is no longer theoretical.

It’s structural.

Sustainability has now firmly established itself as essential structured product data.

And the distributors that organize and surface that information best will become the platforms customers rely on.

The big question is... where will B2B distributors see the largest opportunities emerging?

#B2BDistribution #EcommerceStrategy
#SustainablePackaging

uline environmentally friendly eco-friendly sustainable compostable recyclable biogradable Liz Uihlein climate-change denial Ed Uihlein Family Foundation Heartland Institute

#B2B distribution is one of the most exciting opportunities for sustainable packaging! 

As sustainability pressures increase across supply chains, this is paving the way for completely new types of sustainability leadership opportunities emerging for distributors. 🌟

Customers are not just asking for products.

They are asking for guidance. 💡

Increasingly, purchasing agents have been charged to reduce plastic, improve environmental performance, or prepare for regulatory changes.

But they often do not know where to begin.

This is a great leadership opportunity for B2B distribution.

The distributors that win in this next phase of B2B commerce will not just move products. ‼️

They will help customers navigate sustainable material choices, compliance requirements, and circular packaging alternatives.  This is the emerging stage of convergence of technology enablement and sustainability.

And, at Elevate Packaging, we are already seeing distributors expand into product categories that support this transition.

Are your customers asking for help identifying more sustainable product options?

#B2BDistribution
#SupplyChain
#CircularEconomy

circular compostable biodegradable recyclable recycled packaging B2B e-commerce distributors

If you're in #Chicago and want to learn about the #PlasticFree movement and what can be done, come to this event on April 15th at 5pm.

Michael Hawthorne and Judith Enck 
at SEMINARY COOPERATIVE BOOKSTORE, INC

Join co-author Judith Enck and Pulitzer-finalist investigative journalist, Michael Hawthorne for a free book talk at Seminary Co-Op Bookstore in Chicago on Weds, April 15 at 5:00 PM CT to learn more about the plastic pollution crisis and the solutions outlined in this bold new book.

https://lnkd.in/eDdMCaxX

🏷️ Judith Enck, The New Press

Do meetings energize you? 💪

They energize me when I'm meeting our clients!!

They're quite amazing! 👏

It is my very good fortune for the opportunity to work in the space of #sustainability.

At Elevate Packaging we meet with innovators, creators, and brilliant leaders that are reshaping business and products to be grounded in good for the planet and good for the body solutions.

These amazing humans and their teams are pouring their heart and #passion into all they do. 

I feel so blessed to meet these truly kind and conscientious people on this journey, and playing a supporting role for them by supplying the world's most innovative high-quality circular #compostable packaging and labels! 

Let's keep doing amazing things together, for the planet together!

Eater congrats and thanks to Harry Doull and Ashley!

https://lnkd.in/eniarP24

Elevate Packaging is a market leading innovator because we are driving the circular economy with a clear mission: eliminate plastic.

While Elevate Packaging is a commercial business, our purpose goes beyond profit.
We’re solving a much broader societal challenge.

Our 'donors' are the sustainable brands we work with.
They are sustainability Leaders (with a capital 'L') choosing compostable packaging not just as a product decision, but as a way to supercharge their sustainable brand and actively engage their customers in support of eliminating plastic.

The great part is that these brands experience positive market success by differentiating themselves as best-in-class sustainability leaders.  This sustainability commitment resonates strongly with the loyal eco-conscious market, which continues growing rapidly.

Every Elevate packaging item carries a simple green “Compostable” print.

That small detail becomes a powerful touchpoint in educating consumers, reinforcing better choices for our planet, and building awareness around composting and plastic-free solutions.

And our impact is growing!

Many more brands are adopting compostables, discovering they’re easy to implement and often outperform traditional plastics.

This grassroots movement continues growing, driven by businesses, adopted by consumers, and scaled through everyday transactions.

Elevate Packaging is successful due to its hybrid profit/non-profit model where commercial activity fuels real environmental impact.

#philanthropy #branding #sustainability #circulareconomy

1% for the Planet Kate Williams thanks for all you're doing!

Dear billionaires of The Giving Pledge,

It’s been interesting to observe your current brouhaha over the value of philanthropy as a lever for change. I’m delighted to side with those of you who are sticking with your commitment to give most of your accrued wealth to nonprofits. And, honestly, I’m equally stoked to step in and address the wrongheadedness of those of you who are bailing. 

Let’s call these groups the stickers and the bailers.

The bailers argue that philanthropy doesn’t play a role in addressing the problems of the world. The way to address problems, the bailers propose, is to build and invest in businesses and technologies, and all will be solved. They cite the inefficiency of nonprofits and the philanthropies that fund them as a reason not to risk placing money there.

None of these are new arguments against philanthropy, and yet they are so dangerously incomplete. 

Let’s break it down: Capitalism creates a marketplace. In that marketplace, businesses can generate goods, and the purchase of said goods grows the resources flowing within the marketplace, growing an economy. Investors fund entities and sectors in this marketplace, infusing and generating further resources. All of this activity can, at its best, result in solutions that support a thriving future, but it (most) often creates impacts like waste, pollution, habitat destruction, and more that put our future at risk. 

While the solution-focused activity has a ton of potential and absolutely merits building, there’s at best an enormous lag time (let’s, conservatively, say decades) between now and when a potential future marketplace has solved all problems and created no future impacts.

In the meantime, we have a sector that operates outside the marketplace and exists to fund critical needs and solutions—like protecting biodiversity,  scaling regenerative agriculture practices, and delivering immediate humanitarian response in times of disaster and war—that do not currently (and may never) have a market. 

Nonprofits are the engines in this sector, and they rely on individual, foundation, and corporate donors. To think that we don’t need this sector is as wrongheaded as it would be for the stickers to say that we don’t need the marketplace.

We need both. There are bad actors, inefficiencies, failures, and flaws in both. There are also unicorns, brilliant leaders, complex thinkers, and strengths in both. 

So, dear billionaires, how about we let go of notions that it is noble to give to nonprofits and pragmatic to build companies? And what if we instead focus on smart, strategic, sector-appropriate work that is exactly what our planet needs and what future generations are expecting of us? What if you stuck with your commitment to give back, for the benefit of our planet and future generations? 

For our planet (and those who stick with it),

Kate Williams

Watch this quick PBS video to see what plastic is doing to us.
...to our planet
...to us
...to our family and friends.

At Elevate Packaging we have toxic-free packaging solutions for you and your business.

Start eliminating plastic TODAY!

Go to ElevatePackaging.com for a wide range of plastic-free compostable bio-based solutions.
No minimum order + Ships fast!

#microplastics #recycledplastic #plasticwaste #Bcorp 

https://lnkd.in/ejjy3qgs

Professor, Stanford University, Department of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, School of Medicine & Woods Institute, Doerr School of Sustainability

Talking plastics and why fossil fuel producing nations are stopping progress in the #PlasticTreaty negotiations, which will harm health - on @PBS Newshour - https://lnkd.in/gDTtnuwY. 

Thank you Bjorn Beeler and Nicholas Chartres, PhD, MHumNutr for your expertise and in highlighting this work for my comments and in our report - https://lnkd.in/gXrSBi5r

And Phil Landrigan for leading the work published in the Lancet on plastics impacts on health https://lnkd.in/gztj4jyj

Open article: The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics by thelancet.com

The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics

A little entertainment for your weekend! 😉

Founder Pasturebird, USMC War Veteran, UCLA, Permaculture Orchardist

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