Environmental reporting has long been scattered across spreadsheets, emails, and manual tracking systems. This lack of structure makes it difficult for facilities to understand their true environmental footprint and nearly impossible for brands to receive consistent, reliable information.
To address these challenges, CommonShare is launching the Facility Environmental Data Collector, a unified tool designed to help facilities track, record, and manage key environmental indicators in a single organized space. This feature marks a major step toward accurate, transparent, and standardized environmental data across global supply chains.
A Centralized Hub for Environmental Performance
The Facility Environmental Data Collector consolidates every key environmental indicator into one organized dashboard. Rather than navigating multiple documents and sources, facilities can now manage all data in a unified, consistent structure that reflects global reporting standards.
The system is divided into five core categories:
1. Water Consumption
Water use is a critical sustainability metric. The Data Collector allows facilities to track usage from multiple sources including municipal water, groundwater, and recycled water, month by month. This creates a complete picture of water dependence and enables more informed resource planning, conservation strategies, and environmental reporting.
2. Waste Management
Waste generation is often tracked inconsistently or spread across separate documents. The new tool captures hazardous waste, radioactive materials, and non-recycled waste in a single, reliable format. This ensures that facilities maintain accurate waste profiles that meet audit requirements and support responsible disposal practices.
3. Scope 1 Emissions (Direct Emissions)
Scope 1 emissions are generated on-site and require detailed tracking for accurate carbon accounting. Facilities can now record emissions from stationary combustion such as natural gas, diesel, and LPG, as well as fugitive emissions. By organizing emissions by source and by month, teams gain a clearer understanding of their operational impact.
4. Scope 2 Emissions (Indirect Emissions)
Scope 2 emissions result from purchased electricity, heating, and steam. The Data Collector allows facilities to break these down with precision, making energy-related emissions easier to analyze and improving the accuracy of product-level footprint calculations and compliance submissions.
5. Air Emissions (Non-GHG Pollutants)
Beyond greenhouse gases, many operations generate pollutants such as NOx, SOx, and particulate matter. By centralizing these metrics, the tool enables facilities to understand their broader impact on air quality, respond to regulatory requirements, and adopt more targeted reduction strategies.
Flexible, Detailed, and Realistic Data Entry
Environmental data is rarely static. Consumption shifts with seasons, production cycles, or operational changes. The Data Collector was built with this reality in mind.
Facilities can:
Enter precise monthly metrics instead of annual averages
Break down consumption by source type for more accurate calculations
Update or correct entries at any time, ensuring the dataset always reflects current operations
Add new sources as processes or materials evolve
Remove outdated or incorrect records without compromising historical data integrity
This flexibility ensures that environmental reporting matches real-world conditions rather than forcing facilities into rigid, oversimplified template
Improved Consistency, Compliance, and Collaboration
By standardizing how environmental data is collected, CommonShare helps facilities and brands communicate in a shared language. This creates stronger alignment across supply chains and simplifies information exchange with auditors, customers, and internal teams.
The centralized structure:
reduces reporting errors,
eliminates conflicting data formats,
supports faster compliance submissions,
and builds trust through verified, structured datasets.
For brands, it becomes easier to evaluate supplier risk and environmental performance. For facilities, it provides a predictable, professional framework that supports their sustainability commitments.
Conclusion
The Facility Environmental Data Collector strengthens CommonShare’s mission to bring clarity, structure, and transparency to global supply chains. By consolidating environmental metrics into one powerful system and offering flexible, detailed data entry options, this feature empowers facilities to manage their footprint with precision and reliability.
With this release, CommonShare continues to build the infrastructure needed for responsible production, seamless supplier collaboration, and the next generation of sustainability reporting.