Sustainable Transformation10 Maalis 2025

Balancing health, community and sustainability on a global scale | with Ansell Healthcare

Think sustainability challenges are complex in your business? Now, imagine doing it on a global scale when the products you’re producing are quite literally, life and death!

In this season-opener, Kiarne sits down with Catherine Stribley and Artha Salgado from Ansell Healthcare who represent the two sides of sustainability—human and environmental impact—at Ansell.

Catherine has been driving corporate social responsibility for 14 years, evolving from her role as legal counsel, while Artha is responsible for leading environmental initiatives across global operations after starting in health and safety at Ansell Sri Lanka over 11 years ago.

Their partnership showcases Ansell's unique approach to ESG: deliberately embedding sustainability throughout the organisation rather than isolating it within a dedicated team.

Catherine and Artha share the challenges and successes across the organisation as well as the realities of the huge amount of reporting facing sustainability leaders in 2025.

When it comes to supply chain management, circularity and balancing a product’s purpose with its lifetime impact, it doesn’t get much more complex than single-use gloves.

Health, hygiene and human life quite literally depend on these gloves and yet we’re facing the challenge of 10 BILLION single-use gloves needing to be disposed of every single year.

For anyone facing sustainability in business in 2025, this story will either teach you something OR make you feel a little bit better about your challenges—this one is NOT to be missed!

For sustainability professionals feeling overwhelmed, this advice reminds us that progress comes through focusing on material issues, celebrating the small wins as well as long-term projects, and bringing everyone along on the journey.

MENTIONS:

Ansell Healthcare
Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)
Neil Salmon - Ansell CEO
Ansell Board of Directors
Ansell - Executive Leadership Team
Life Cycle Assessment
Supply Chain Management
Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD)
Responsible Glove Alliance
Carbon Tunnel Vision

LINKS:

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CREDITS:

Host: Kiarne Treacy

Guests: Artha Salgado and Catherine Stribley

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