b-corp certified companies are really looking to show their wider 'good' credentials to customers and other businesses. The environmental part of their assessment criteria is the only bit that's relevant to us here at Label Mouse.

It's 30 questions that cover environmental management, air and climate, water, land & life. The questions touch on how a company measures and manages its carbon footprint, whether they have green building standards or whether they use pesticides. After the questionnaire and a £250 fee, b-corp follow up with validation and the company needs to re-verify every three years.

A company could obtain b-corp certification if they use pesticides, or if they don't pay minimum wage (for example) as long as they score well in other areas.

After digging around in the assessment platform it seems agriculture and fisheries are the ones most applicable to us and there isn't much in these categories that give us any confidence that a company couldn't get certified by another means.

We'd say look out for it as an indicator of a transparent and open organisation when it comes to reporting and governance (but don't forget Brewdog were b-corp certified while having a "rotten culture"*, and Nespresso are b-corp ffs...*), it doesn't mean anything when it comes to animal welfare.