About SINK

SINK: Sustainability Intelligence. Independent scores for companies, on the evidence, in public.

How sustainable is a company?

We keep it simple. Like a food hygiene rating, we give every company a score out of 100. The higher the score, the better it is for the planet.

Same ten questions for every company. Every source shown. Companies can't pay to change their score.

How to read a score

75–85
Exceptional
60–74
Leading practice
46–59
Making progress
31–45
Below expectations
16–30
Significant gaps

High scores are rare. Above 75 is rare. A score of 60 or more means clear leadership, backed by published data and science-based targets.

Run a business? Get your own score free and send it with tenders and customer questionnaires. Published within 5 working days, or we email you to say why. For businesses →

Everyone else: search any score, check the working behind it and challenge it if you think it's wrong. It's all free. Search the scores →

What is a sink?

A carbon sink absorbs more carbon dioxide than it releases. Forests, oceans and soils all do it, helping keep greenhouse gases down.

No company acts like a carbon sink. Quite the opposite. So we score every company on how close they get, with a breakdown of how they did it, so others can follow.

In plain English

Where the score comes from.

The ten questions are answered from public evidence, such as annual reports, regulatory filings and investigations. You can check the working behind any score.

Anyone can send us new evidence, free. If it holds up, the score changes, up or down, and the change is logged on the company's page. Scores are free. Nobody can pay to change a score, speed it up or hide it. How we stay independent →

Who uses it

Who uses SINK.

1,023 companies scored, and counting. 97 of them were added because somebody asked us to score them.

When we get one wrong, we say so. Our last published correction moved 47 scores, most of them down. Every one of them is on the company page, old score beside new.

What we stand for

What we stand for.

  1. 1.Everyone plays by the same rules.

    Every company, big or small, is scored on the same ten questions.

  2. 2.The planet is the benchmark.

    We score total emissions, because that's what the climate responds to. The bigger the footprint, the more a company has to show. If a company doesn't publish a figure, we apply a cautious standard deduction instead.

  3. 3.Proof beats promises.

    We score what companies measure and do, and link every source so you can check it. Targets count for something. Offsets don't count as cuts.

  4. 4.Money can't buy a score.

    Scores are free. Nobody can pay to change a score, speed it up or hide it.

SINK is paid for tools and data. Scores are free, and no payment affects one.

How SINK is paid

Scores are free. Nobody can pay to change a score, speed it up or hide it. SINK is paid for tools and data.

How we stay independent

The rules we keep so that nobody can buy a score, and how anyone can send us evidence or challenge a score, free.

Read our independence rules →

Been scored? Claim your company's page.

Find your company below and open its page. Under “Is this your company?”, enter your work email at the company's website address. We send one link to confirm.

Once you confirm, the page says “Profile claimed by” your company, and we email you when its score changes. Claiming is free and changes nothing about the score.

1,023 companies scored · Recently: Pukka Herbs, Finisterre, Innocent Drinks, Who Gives A Crap

Who's behind SINK

An independent team in the UK, with backgrounds in supply chains and earth science. We're not owned by, or paid by, any company we score.

Contact

Get in touch.

If you want to get in touch, challenge a score, or suggest a company to add, email us at hello@sinkproject.com.

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