Your waste. Your data.
Your decision.
The 30-Day Waste Audit for retail operations.
You already know textiles are a problem. We can tell you exactly how big yours is.
Every sustainability conversation eventually lands on the same number — some percentage of textiles lost to landfill, some fraction of waste going to the wrong place. These figures are real. But they describe an industry average, not The Warehouse Group.
The question that matters to your procurement team, your sustainability lead, and your board is simpler: how much textile waste is your business generating right now, what is it costing you in levy, and what would diverting it be worth? You do not currently have a verified answer to any of those three questions. We can get you one in 30 days.
The offer in plain terms
We instrument one back-of-house store for 30 days using the ēkotrace platform. Staff training: 15 minutes. No hardware installation. Operators log material drops via a plain-language interface — four taps, no technical knowledge required. Every event is SHA-256 hash-chained at the moment of logging. The audit trail is tamper-evident from day one.
- ✔Total textile waste mass by stream
- ✔Current disposal route and levy cost
- ✔Certified diversion opportunity (kg and NZ$)
- ✔Carbon avoidance figure (Scope 3 baseline)
- ✔Hash-chained audit report — audit-grade evidence you own
- ✔EU Digital Product Passport readiness assessment for private-label lines
- • 30 days of instrumented data collection at one store
- • Platform access, operator training, and technical support
- • A hash-chained audit report at day 30
- • No invoice, regardless of outcome
- • One back-of-house contact who can confirm material drops (15 min per shift)
- • Access to one back-of-house area for the audit period
- • 30 minutes for an end-of-audit debrief
- • Nothing further unless you choose to proceed
If the data does not move you — if the numbers do not make the case for the next step — we shake hands and part as friends. No invoice. No pressure. No follow-up pitch unless you ask for one.
If the data does move you, we have a 90-day pilot MoU ready to sign the same day.
Why this works
The barrier to most technology pilots in retail is the commitment. A 30-day waste audit asks for almost nothing. One store. One contact. Fifteen minutes of training. The deliverable is data that TWG already needs — for the FY26 sustainability disclosure, for the Scope 3 reporting obligation under the Climate-Related Disclosures Act, and for any EU-market product lines that will require a Digital Product Passport from 2026.
The data does not lie. And once you have it, you will want it for every store.
Ready to see your number?
Email connect@ekot.nz with the subject line "30-Day Audit" and include the name of one store and one contact. We will have the platform configured and the operator briefed within five working days.
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