Boss Design

Carbon per million dollars of revenue. The legacy industry-standard reference (CDP, MSCI). Useful for cross-sector context, but distorted by margin — high-margin firms appear artificially efficient. Read alongside the operational and asset intensities for the full picture.

OpEx (operating expenditure) is the running cost of the business — staff, services, energy, materials. This shows how carbon-intensive operations are per million dollars of spend. Removes the margin distortion that revenue-based ratios introduce.

EVIC (Enterprise Value Including Cash) is the firm's total capital footprint — equity + debt + cash + minority interest. The EU's standard intensity measure (SFDR PAI 3) — answers: how much carbon does each million of capital deployed in this business produce?

PP&E (Property, Plant & Equipment) plus leased real-estate assets is the firm's physical infrastructure on the balance sheet. This shows the carbon intensity of that physical footprint — uses Scope 1+2+3 for consistency with the other headline intensities. Surfaces stranded-asset risk for asset-heavy firms.

Boss Design's factory has run on 100% renewable energy since April 2018, sourced solely from wind, hydro and solar. A staff environmental suggestion scheme (over 60% of suggestions implemented) has helped maintain energy usage flat for three years despite an increase in overall footprint. The company invests in green energy 'simply because it's the right thing to do'.

No narrative on durable removals approach in the firm's most recent reports.

• Lean manufacturing & zero waste to landfill

  Lean manufacturing process sends zero waste to landfill across Dudley facilities; any non-recyclable waste is sent to energy recovery (incineration with electricity generation). 100% of plastic waste from factories is recycled. Investment in new polymer technologies and injection-mould equipment has reduced plastic use and manufacturing time, lowering energy consumption.

• Product longevity & design for disassembly

  Boss designs furniture to last a generation rather than 5-7 years, with all new collections designed for circularity — easy to disassemble using standard hand tools so components and materials can be separated, recovered, reused or recycled. About 4% of annual turnover is invested in R&D, mostly devoted to sustainable design and the move to a circular production model.

• Recyclable packaging

  All plastic-bag packaging is 100% recyclable; cardboard base covers, kraft paper and cardboard boxes contain 76% recycled content and are 100% reusable and recyclable. Plastic packaging is collected and reused where possible, and single-use plastic packaging is being eliminated.

• Recycled-content materials (polymers, aluminium, glass, metal)

  Increasing recycled content across wood, metal, glass, polymers and fabric. Projects underway to use plastic from recycled bottles to replace plywood and moulded parts, hemp-based plastic replacements, and 100% recycled polypropylene with existing tools instead of virgin plastics. Continually reviewing aluminium suppliers to increase recycled content. Example: Ola chair is 63% recycled content (53% post-industrial + 10% post-consumer).

• Next Life take-back, reuse and reupholstery

  End-of-life service collects, safety-checks and donates furniture via Waste to Wonder (1,600+ tonnes diverted from landfill, 750+ schools equipped in 18 countries since 2003). Reupholstery extends life of structurally-sound items — e.g. a high-street bank refurbishment of sofas, armchairs and customer chairs (3-5 years old) saved the client ~£200k versus buying new, with a new Boss warranty issued.

• Cradle-to-gate carbon footprinting & EPDs

  Every product is published with an Environmental Product Declaration covering material, packaging, energy and transportation carbon make-up. Calculations use a proprietary cradle-to-gate calculator with emissions factors for materials, energy and transport based on product category, weight, supplier-to-factory-to-DC distances and energy source. Disclosures are self-declared.