Recently, GreenGlimpse had the pleasure of taking part in the Sustainability Fair during Erasmus Sustainability Days in Rotterdam.
We had our own table at the fair, where we spent the day meeting students, professors, founders, sustainability professionals, and visitors who were curious about how businesses can operate more responsibly.
The conversations were varied, but many came back to the same question:
How can e-commerce become less wasteful and more climate-conscious without making sustainability unnecessarily complicated for businesses?
From sustainable ambitions to practical decisions
Many businesses want to reduce their environmental impact, but finding the right solution is not always easy.
A webshop may want to replace plastic packaging, reduce emissions from deliveries, improve how returned products are handled, or communicate its environmental efforts more responsibly. However, identifying suitable providers, comparing their services, and checking the credibility of sustainability claims can take considerable time.
This is where GreenGlimpse aims to help.
GreenGlimpse is building a network that connects businesses with sustainable service providers across areas such as:
- Eco-friendly and reusable packaging
- Green logistics and low-emission delivery
- Circular return management
- Sustainable advertising and communication
- Carbon reduction and impact measurement
- Sustainability verification
Our goal is to make sustainable business solutions easier to discover, understand, and adopt. Instead of asking companies to search across many different channels, we want to give them one place where they can explore relevant providers and find solutions that match their needs.
GreenGlimpse is also developing practical tools, including an eco-saving calculator and smarter ways to connect businesses with suitable providers.
Why these conversations matter
Presenting GreenGlimpse was an important part of the fair, but listening was just as valuable.
We spoke with people working in different fields and at different stages of their sustainability journey. Some were already developing environmental solutions. Others were researching sustainable business models, looking for collaboration opportunities, or simply trying to understand where they could make a meaningful contribution.
These conversations reminded us that the sustainability transition is not only about creating new technologies. It also depends on making existing solutions more visible, bringing the right organisations together, and helping good ideas move into everyday business operations.
That need is becoming more urgent. The Netherlands is working towards a fully circular economy by 2050—an economy in which products and raw materials are reused and very little is discarded as waste.
European packaging rules are also changing. The EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation entered into force on 11 February 2025 and will generally apply from 12 August 2026. It introduces measures intended to reduce packaging waste and improve recyclability and reuse.
For e-commerce businesses, this means that packaging, logistics, returns, product lifecycles, and environmental communication are becoming increasingly important operational questions—not just marketing topics.
Open to events, partnerships, and collaboration
Taking part in the Sustainability Fair gave us the opportunity to explain what we are building, receive direct feedback, and meet people who care about turning sustainability into practical action.
We would be happy to take part in more events like this.
GreenGlimpse is open to collaborating with:
- Universities and student organisations
- Sustainability hubs and business networks
- Municipalities and public organisations
- E-commerce communities
- Incubators and startup programmes
- Research institutions
- Circular-economy initiatives
- Event organisers and conference teams
We are interested in exhibitions, panel discussions, workshops, networking events, research collaborations, pilot projects, and other opportunities that bring sustainable businesses and solution providers together.
Organising an event or working on an initiative where GreenGlimpse could contribute? Contact us at [email protected]. We would be glad to hear more about it.
Are you a sustainable service provider?
We are actively growing the GreenGlimpse provider network.
Businesses offering sustainable solutions can create a profile and list their services on the platform. This can help them become more visible to companies looking for practical ways to improve their operations.
We welcome providers working in areas such as sustainable packaging, green logistics, circular returns, responsible advertising, carbon reduction, environmental data, impact measurement, and sustainability verification.
Joining the network is a simple way to introduce your services, explain the impact you create, and connect with businesses that may need your expertise.
Register on GreenGlimpse and become part of a growing network of organisations working towards more sustainable commerce:
https://greenglimpse.org/en/app/join
A shared effort
No single organisation can make e-commerce sustainable on its own.
Meaningful progress happens when businesses, providers, researchers, communities, and public organisations share knowledge and work together. Events such as Erasmus Sustainability Days create space for those connections to begin.
We would like to thank the Erasmus Sustainability Hub, the organisers, visitors, fellow participants, and everyone who stopped by our table and shared an idea, question, or piece of feedback.
For GreenGlimpse, the fair was not only an opportunity to present our platform. It was another step towards building the network and partnerships needed to make sustainable business choices easier to put into practice.
Small steps become meaningful when the right people, businesses, and solutions find each other.