Sustainability Policy

Sustainability policy

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Foreword

 

The company Degli Esposti A. Srl wants to demonstrate its values to customers through innovative paths towards social and environmental sustainability. The company therefore intends to affirm its commitment to improving energy performance by seeking technological, managerial or innovative solutions aimed at reducing energy consumption. The management, with the aim of raising awareness in the supply chain and communicating its commitment to evaluating the related goods and services also according to energy and environmental sustainability parameters, has adopted a sustainability policy.

 

 

Stimulated by creativity and collaboration, the Company has been working for several years to reduce environmental impact and to help protect nature and people, through controlled policies of use, recycling and disposal.

Environmental objectives are not only about reducing impacts, but also about the sustainable development of the supply chain. To this end, the company invests in implementing programs of initiatives in its activities and along the supply chain that can evolve in this direction.

Among the initiatives, DEA supports a project that involves the use of raw materials from sustainable sources, but also optimizations in the area of transport and logistics aimed at reducing waste and process efficiency, with a focus on sustainability.             

 

This document contains a summary of the guidelines followed by the company to make the entire life cycle of its products more sustainable, including the most indirect aspects such as those related to packaging and visual merchandising.

In line with the GRI Standards and ISO 14001 standard points, we are committed to managing our impacts transparently, integrating sustainability into the business strategy to create long-term value for our stakeholders,

This commitment translates into the following lines of action

 

Here are the general guidelines of DEA:

 

Environmental Responsibility

 

➢     Adapt its environmental management system to the requirements of the latest edition of the UNI EN ISO 14001 standard, in order to train and raise awareness among the’company and its stakeholders to eco-sustainabilityà, organize and streamline activitiesà self-monitoring, planning improvement actions especially to reduce direct and indirect environmental impacts and give added value to its products.

⮚      Identify and pursue objectives of innovation and continuous improvement of environmental performance;

⮚      Monitor and report on energy and water consumption, together with waste production and emission measurement, to ensure effective feedback in terms of sustainabilityà and in the’with a view to continuous improvement of performance (GRI 301-302-305)

⮚     Ensuring maximum efficiency of abatement systems aimed at intercepting dust and organic compounds before they are released into the atmosphere (GRI 305)

⮚      Ensuring proper waste management and minimizing waste production (GRI 306)

⮚      Responsible management of water withdrawal and discharge (GRI 303)

⮚      Protecting biodiversityà (GRI 304)

➢     Prioritise the’use of recyclable and eco-sustainable materials (GRI 308)

⮚      Adopt the precautionary principle whenever there is a lack of scientific evidence on environmental challenges and act with care and caution to minimize potential impacts;

⮚      Reduce quantityà hazardous chemicals and manage their life cycle and final disposal in a precise manner and in compliance with the law; ( GRI 306)

⮚  Progressively replace, where possible, hazardous chemicals with lower-impact alternatives (e.g. water-based paints, solvent-free adhesives) (GRI 305 – GRI 403)

⮚      Optimize the consumption of non-renewable resources and promote the use of energy from clean sources (GRI 302)

⮚      Make a conscious and optimized use of natural resources, monitoring where possible your consumption (water, electricity, etc.)à, gas, paper) and the waste generated; (GRI 301)

⮚      Employ the human and financial resources necessary to pursue environmental and energy objectives and targets, the results of which will be periodically analyzed in order to undertake the lines of action.

➢     At the infrastructural level, provide for the constant technical and technological updating of our infrastructures in order to maintain high competitivenessà on the market in addition to internal process and energy efficiency; Medium-term investments are always planned by the management.

 

Social Responsibility

 

⮚      Constantly verify working methods and operating procedures to prevent accidents and non-conformitiesà through technical procedures; ( GRI403)

⮚      To ensure a condition of well-being equally distributed in the workplace, with particular attention to health and safety issues; ( GRI 403)

➢     With regard to the management of internal personnel, maintain high involvement and awareness of the staff in order to create a team of people involved in the policies, aware of the company aspects and objectives and the consequences in the event of NC, also in terms of law, as well asé capable of making a positive contribution to the pursuit of the activitiesà planning. (GRI 404)

➢     Maintain a high level of effectiveness of the training provided, in order to make internal processes more efficient and improve the working climate, understood as the sum of environmental, infrastructural and character requirements. ( GRI404)

➢     Promote equal treatment and opportunities, rejecting all forms of discrimination ( GRI 405) 

➢     Collaborate continuously with our customers’ technical departments to identify innovative materials that improve the safety of the finished product (GRI 416)

➢     Support our business partners by providing, on request, all technical documentation and product sheets (GRI 416)

⮚      Guarantee and exceed the minimum legal requirements;

 

Ethics and Governance

 

➢     Carefully design and plan also in consideration of the procurement, storage and shipping phases to reduce the number of trips and packaging volumes and maximize the life time of products and raw materials.

⮚      Communicate the results obtained from environmental and energy management in a transparent and continuous manner, measuring and monitoring the level of performance through the’development and control of a specific system of performance indicators

⮚      Stimulating creativityà of its employees and all stakeholders: the real lifeblood of the’company;

⮚      Countering the risk of dumping practices’anti-corruption purchase (GRI 205)

➢     To make a selection of suppliers favoring those who operate according to environmental requirements,  qualityà, Social and Ethical. With them we intend to maintain a constant relationship of collaboration and exchange of information in order to optimize mutual synergies and performance, with the aim of building a responsible supply chain ( GRI 414 -GRI 308 – GRI 204 )

⮚      Promoting community involvementà to offer the production and maintenance of favourable conditions for economic growth at the same time.’internal territory of our territory (GRI 413);

 

 

Below are the most specific:

➢     About Materials and raw materials:

• Use wood with minimal content or in the absence of formaldehyde, traceable along the supply chain.
• Buy wood and paper preferably from sustainably managed sources, with reference to FSC 100% certification or FSC Mix or PEFC.
• Choose ISPM15 certified wooden pallets, preferably from sustainably managed sources, with reference to FSC 100% certification or FSC Mix or PEFC.
• Prefer OSB crates, preferably from sustainably managed sources, with reference to FSC 100% certification or FSC Mix or PEFC.
• Prepare suitable places for the storage of certified materials, so that they are recognizable and easily available.
• Avoid using single-use plastic utensils.
• Favor the use of PVC Free and Phtalates free plastic, recycled or at least with biological content, preferably not composed of raw materials from food sources, but from plants, forestry resources, proteins from abandoned supply sources, etc.
• second-generation plastic – composed of raw materials not from food sources, but from plants, forestry resources, proteins from abandoned supply sources, etc.
• Preferably use recycled materials (recycled content >30%), with reference to the FSC recycled (paper) or GRS (plastic) certification.
• Choose paper and wood-derived products certified as coming from sustainably managed sources, with reference to FSC 100% certification or FSC Mix or PEFC.
• Comply with the requirements of the Product Restricted Chemicals List (PRSL) and the Restricted Substances in Manufacturing Process List (MRSL) of customers.
• Ensure that raw materials do not come from genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
• Use an official method of analysis to evaluate the percentage of biological content (e.g., ASTM method D8666) and be able to provide such data.

 

 

➢     About the Packing:

• Limit the number of packaging, reducing what is not necessary.
• Optimize space saturation by avoiding oversized packaging for the contents of the packaging volumes compared to the volume of product, especially to avoid filling empty spaces with other packaging.
• Saturate any empty spaces inside the packaging with filling paper, avoiding the use of plastic (e.g. polystyrene, bubbles, etc.).
• Preferably use paper adhesive material for closing packaging, avoiding the use of plastic tape.
• Prefer natural materials such as organic cotton, cardboard or certified paper to plastic.

 

➢     About the Logistics:

• Ensure proper sorting and recycling of packaging waste at all stages of its use;
• Reduce the number of trips required;
• Prefer more sustainable means of transport

 

 

This policy defines the strategic guidelines and illustrates some of the sustainability objectives below. The details of the operational objectives, quantitative targets and related implementation timelines are defined in the detailed document within the Environmental Management System 

 

Strategic Business Objectives 

 

⮚      Sustainable sourcing goal: Achieve 100% certified paper and wood (FSC/PEFC)

⮚      Energy Objective: To achieve and maintain 100% electricity supply from renewable sources (Green Energy) 

⮚      Waste Objective: To reach 50% of waste from separate collection sent for recovery

⮚      Emissions Objective: Create a Scope 3 emissions inventory covering at least 90% of the purchase volume of wood and paper, moving from estimates based on expenditure (€) to estimates based on weight (kg) 

⮚      Supply Chain Objective: Increase the percentage of critical suppliers qualified on ethical-social-environmental criteria 

⮚      Ethical Objective: To promote an inclusive work environment through the achievement of gender equality

⮚      Compliance Objective – Transparency: Publication of the sustainability report on the website

 

 

 

Monitoring & Transparency & Improvement

 

⮚      Carry out internal checks, inspections and audits to identify and prevent any non-complianceà with the requirements of the management system;

⮚      Increase the performance level of the heritage through appropriate design choices

⮚      Update our sustainability goals annually, aiming for continuous improvement

⮚      regularly subject policies and processes to audits to ensure legislative compliance and operational efficiency.