B Impact Report

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Qero Ecovasos

Reusable cups for all kind of occasions
Certified Since: April, 2017
Location: CABA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sector: Service with Significant Environmental Footprint

Overall B Impact Scoreinfo_outline

81.7

The B Impact Scores are being compared against all businesses that have completed the B Impact Assessment

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Qero fights against the environmental scourge of disposable cups by replacing them for reusable ones. The ultimate goal of Qero is to help provoke a cultural change by making people aware of the harmful effects of using disposable items, focusing on communication, high quality products and great service.

Qero handles a 360® scope of the business, from the production of cups, washing and drying services, assessment in communication and calculation of environmental impact metrics, and finally the recycling of damaged cups (less than 1%) into other sustainable products such as portable trash cans or bike mudguards.

Qero's main customers are festivals, beverage companies, artisan beer brewers, corporate and state offices, all of which have embraced the habit of reusing. In the first 4 years since its birth, the company has been able to avoid the use of 50 million disposable cups, which represent 800 tons of plastic waste and 3.000 tons of CO2 emissions.

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info_outlineOverall B Impact Score

To certify as a B Corp, a company must achieve a minimum verified score of 80 points on the B Impact Assessment. The B Impact Assessment asks questions about how the day-to-day operations of a company create positive impact for the company’s workers, community, and environment. Additionally, companies can earn further points if their overall business model can be shown to create positive social and environmental impact as well, qualifying the company for specific Impact Business Model points.

Scores for Certified B Corporations are verified by the non-profit B Lab.

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The questions in the B Impact Assessment are organized into five Impact Areas: Governance, Workers, Community, Environment, and Customers. Click into a Impact Area to see topics covered in each. Topics in blue are Impact Business Models associated with that Impact Area where the company has earned additional credit. Due to rounding, displayed totals may not add up exactly.

The B Impact Assessment is customized to a company's size, sector, and geographic market.  However, within those parameters, there are still questions included in the B Impact Assessment that might not be relevant to a particular company. In cases where a question is not applicable, the potential points available for that question are instead earned based on the performance of the company on the other topics relevant to the stakeholder and summed up as "N/A points." Likewise, a score of N/A for Workers means that the company is a sole proprietor or partnership with no full-time staff, and a score of 0 or N/A for Customers means that the company does not have a specific Customer-focused Impact Business Model.

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