Sustainability

Our integrated TENA Solutions helps to ensure that you are always using the right product and improving continence care while lowering your carbon footprint.

Improving care reduces waste

Our wide range of products offers optimum comfort and fit, preventing leakage and reducing the frequency of changes. By choosing the right product for each type of need, you can avoid overusing products, reduce waste and laundry, and ultimately lower the overall environmental impact and cost of continence care.

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Proven Commitment

Essity is dedicated to working towards more sustainable practices. For this reason, we make a conscious effort to be transparent when it comes to sharing our carbon footprint. Our commitment to sustainability is widely recognized and we are proud of our many awards for our efforts in supporting a better environment.

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Commitment to the Environment

As part of our ongoing commitment to the environment, we undertake various steps and processes called Eco Actions to develop more sustainable products and services.

Since the 1990s, we have measured and reduced the total environmental impact of our products using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). LCA calculates the sum of all greenhouse gases emitted during a product’s full life cycle. This is known as the carbon footprint.

Our LCA looks at every step of the production process, from sourcing materials to waste disposal. By evaluating each product’s carbon footprint, we strive to make the best environmental choices that are possible.

Driving Change

We are proud of the progress that we have already made and continue to set challenging goals for ourselves for the future.

Between 2008 and 2014 in Europe, we successfully reduced the carbon footprint of TENA Flex by 7% and TENA Pants by 18%. (Third party verification by IVL, Swedish Environmental Research Institute).

To ensure we keep driving change, we have set a series of goals: 

• Develop more sustainable solutions with improved product design and efficient and effective use of materials

• Ensure that raw materials we use are sourced from eco-friendly suppliers

• Reduce product and packaging waste

• Reduce the carbon emissions caused by fossil fuels, electricity and heating by 20% between 2005 and 2020

• Continuously reduce waste in our factories

• Partner with our suppliers to reduce carbon emissions across the entire supply chain

Responsible sourcing of materials

At TENA, we understand that the choices we make today will affect the environment and our lives tomorrow.

Producing materials causes the largest environmental impact in the life cycle of TENA products, therefore we ensure that the materials we use are responsibly and environmentally sourced. Our suppliers must meet strict standards that are audited regularly to ensure quality, product safety, social responsibility and environmental performance.

Wood fiber, one of the materials that we use to make our products, is a natural and renewable resource. We only source it from responsibly managed forests.

Innovating for Need

When developing new products or improving our existing product range, we always begin by identifying individual needs that have not yet been met. All of our products are rigorously tested with end users and caregivers to ensure they deliver the desired benefits. By making our product range evolve to meet specific needs, we reduce material and manufacturing waste while continually striving for better continence care for everyone.

Leaner, cleaner production

At TENA, we use state-of-the-art technology to ensure our manufacturing processes are as efficient and use as little energy as possible. Most of our factories have received the international environmental ISO 14001 certification and we are currently preparing our newer production sites to comply with this certification.

We constantly strive to improve our production processes, recover excess materials and recycle packaging. Based on these actions, we can see our efforts are paying off. In Europe, we have reduced the amount of landfill waste by nearly 70% during the last six years.

Optimized Product Usage

Our wide product range means that you'll be able to find the right TENA product for whatever level of protection you need from occasional drops and dribbles to heavier leaks and surges. TENA products are designed with an anatomical fit and optimal absorbency, giving increased leakage security and odor control.

By choosing an effective continence care solution, product changes are less frequent and this saves you money as well as our planet. Since they are specially designed to address urine leakage, they are much more effective at whisking away moisture and odor than conventional feminine care products. This also means that users can select a smaller product that is more comfortable and uses less material.